| To be certain, spring bass fishing is the best seasonal | | | | way up to the top end, and you are quite likely to find |
| fishing in the United States. Anglers swarm to the | | | | several decent sized schools of large bass staging in |
| lakes like flies (and sometimes with them!) for excellent | | | | areas of brush, spawning and simply staying out of the |
| bass fishing between February and May. Of course, | | | | current. |
| those new to the sport don't have the level of | | | | The tactic to use is this: get ready to cover a lot of |
| experience that many of these longtime fishermen do | | | | water, because you can never tell at what point the |
| and still require some tips for where to find the best | | | | bass are going to stage. However, when trolling the |
| spring fishing in the country. Let's take a look at some | | | | waters, stay along a breakline. In the spring, bass are |
| of the biggest bass fishing lakes in Texas and the | | | | concerned with three things only - spawning, eating, |
| techniques used by avid anglers in the area to come | | | | and resting. They can take care of all of the above by |
| up with consistently large numbers and sizes of spring | | | | sticking close to a breakline. Shallower water is better |
| bass. | | | | for eating and can also provide options for spawning, |
| Lake Fork and Sam Rayburn are probably the best | | | | especially if there is heavy foliage or cover in the |
| bass fishing lakes in all of Texas, especially if you want | | | | shallower area. For rest and dormancy during daytime, |
| to find bass over twelve pounds. In fact, while many | | | | the deeper water along the breakline provides the |
| area lakes have more fish, none can produce the | | | | perfect shelter from overheating, as well as from |
| sizes that these two do every spring. Both lakes are | | | | excess current. |
| full of preferred hangouts for large bass in spring: | | | | To target these creatures during the season, you will |
| creeks branching off (especially those running near | | | | probably get the best response with crankbaits, either |
| shallow water), points, coves, breaklines, and banks | | | | deep diving or lipless (the former for deeper waters |
| with deep cuts. The most common trend you'll find in | | | | and the latter for shallow casting).However, if you can |
| spring fishing in these areas is that the bass will hunker | | | | find staging females, you should switch to a soft |
| down along breaklines. Of course, in early spring, you | | | | jerkbait or a jig-and-craw. If you work it slowly, you'll be |
| can search the creeks from the mouth bed all the | | | | sure to have an effect on these cows. |