| Spring (Pre-Spawn) | Largemouth Bass | 52-65 | - Bass are beginning their pre-spawn movement from winter depths to warmer, shallow areas, staging near spawning flats
- Actively feeding during warming trends, with increased activity around emerging vegetation and shallow structure
| - Emerging weed growth areas in 3-6 feet of water, especially near future spawning flats
- Pencil reed edges that provide ambush points and warming areas
- Secondary points and transitions leading to spawning bays
| - Bladed Jigs worked slowly through emerging vegetation
- Lipless Crankbaits around sparse vegetation and transitions
- Soft Jerkbaits worked with long pauses in clearing pockets
| - Bluegill beginning to move shallow and become more active
- Small baitfish congregating in warming areas
| - Natural Baitfish Colors
- Green Colors
- Purple Colors
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| Spring (Spawn) | Largemouth Bass | 65-75 | - Bass actively moving into spawning areas at 70°F, utilizing shallow vegetation for both spawning and feeding on bluegill
- Fish staging between sparse vegetation edges and dense cover, making feeding movements during stable weather
| - Pencil reed and lily pad edges in shallow water
- Protected spawning pockets within vegetation
- Weedline transitions in 4-8 foot depth range
| - Bladed Jigs worked through vegetation edges
- Texas Rigs (Pitch/Flip) in dense cover
- Swim Jigs along weed edges
| - Bluegill
- Young of year baitfish
| - Natural Baitfish Colors
- Green Colors
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| Spring (Post-Spawn) | Largemouth Bass | 65-75 | - Bass are actively feeding in post-spawn recovery, focusing on shallow vegetation edges and inside weedlines as primary feeding zones
- Fish are showing aggressive surface feeding behavior, especially during overcast conditions, targeting bluegill in and around vegetation
| - Inside edges of weedlines where vegetation meets deeper water
- Lily pad fields in shallow areas
- Outside weedline edges, especially where they create defined edges
| - Hard Topwater (Popping) worked along vegetation edges
- Soft Jerkbaits around weedlines and lily pads
- Texas Rigs (Pitch/Flip) in heavy vegetation
| - Bluegill concentrating around vegetation edges
- Young of year baitfish beginning to emerge in the shallows
| - Natural Baitfish Colors
- Green Colors
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