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Can I throw a wakebait during prespawn with water temperatures in the upper 50s?
Absolutely, using a wakebait during the prespawn period when water temperatures are in the upper 50s can be a very effective strategy. Wakebaits are topwater lures that create a subtle surface disturbance, mimicking a baitfish swimming near the surface. This can be particularly enticing to bass that are becoming more active and feeding aggressively in preparation for the spawn.
During the prespawn, bass are moving from deeper wintering areas to shallower spawning flats, and they're on the lookout for easy meals. The wakebait's action can trigger strikes from bass that are keen to capitalize on vulnerable prey. It's important to work the wakebait with a steady retrieve to maintain that enticing surface disturbance. You might also experiment with slight pauses or twitches to mimic an injured baitfish.
Given the context from the videos you've mentioned, it's clear that bass are responsive to various presentations during this period, and a wakebait offers a unique profile and action that could very well be the ticket to catching those pre-spawn bass. Just remember to adjust your retrieval speed and technique based on the bass's activity level and water conditions. Happy fishing!
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Top 5 Baits For Early Spring Bass Fishing! (How To Fish Them) | Bass Fishing by Bass Fishing Tips & Techniques by BassResource → a spawning area, The bass were stacked up there,
getting ready to move up when the water was right. The water temperatures were right
around 50 degrees. And I was just slowly bringing it along. And you would think the
bass would just kind of mouth it and walk off, but no. They clocked it. I mean, they were trying
to rip the rod out of my hand. So be prepared for that. Even just because it's a slow presentation
doesn't mean the bass aren't going to annihilate it. They will. But that technique works really
well. Now, water temperature is right in that, you know, low, upper-50s, low, sorry, low-50s,
upper-40s temperature range. Slow rolling it is going to be very, very effective.
As the water temperature warms up, target those outside weed lines. Move up a
little bit shallower, maybe along docks. But, again, a moderate retrieve. You're not burning
it back really quick. A lot of guys are used to doing spinnerbaits at a fast speed, I think
that's why a lot of folks think it's only good in the warmer months. But a slower speed is a
necessity during this time of year. And you'd be surprised how many fish you catch on them. I
fish it with 15-pound InvizX fluorocarbon line and with a 7-foot medium-heavy fast-action rod.
It's like the universal jack-of-all-trades. I've got one rigged and ready all the time year-round.
That works universally for me. I can throw it no
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5 Crankbaits you NEED TO HAVE For Prespawn Bass Fishing! by Nathan Quince Fishing → crankbaits up in that higher water temperature but that period of time between 48 and 55 degree water temperature this thing can really blast some fish so you got to have this one in your box as well and the last crankbait you absolutely have to have for spring bass fishing this thing kills it once that water gets above 50 degrees second plastic crankbait in the lineup and that is going to be the spro little john you can fish this thing down in a little bit colder water i've caught fishing like 47 48 degree range on it but i really like that water to be a little bit warmer because this isn't a balsa wood crank bait it has the rattles it has a little bit wider action compared to a balsa wood crank bait just because of the plastic i don't know what it is sometimes that balsa wood crankbait performs better in colder water but this bait also has the flat side so it will work in some colder water those lower 50 degree days it'll still work just because of the flat sides it has a tight wiggle to it and this comes in an md and a regular size so the md medium diver this thing gets down about seven nine foot you can cover a little bit deeper water and then once that water starts to warm up like i said that's 60 degree range high 50s i start
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Jerkbaits vs. crankbaits in the prespawn..#bassfishing #bassmaster by Intuitive Angling With Randy Blaukat → relative you know to you know the geographical area the trend but one of the things you have to realize here is that this transition like I said can happen is pretty subtly and a lot of times both things are working both crankbaits and jerkface are working at the same time but there comes a point where as far as producing quality and quantities of fish that one starts or starts to transition and there's a couple of different things I like to keep in mind here first of all when that water temperatures and they're like the 40s and he knew where from 40 to upper forties around 50 degrees I'm really using a jerkbait a lot more particularly if you have water visibilities that are saying greater than two and a half feet I mean that's that's that's when the jerk bait is really going to shine over the crankbait once that water temperature starts rising up into the low 50s that's when you start seeing the the biggest movement of the year of quality fish like those 3 to 5 pound bass little moose shallow and get catchable better than any other time of year that's why March is one of the best times of the year to catch a big bag of fish is that because you have a lot of those big pre-spawn females that are up shallow and feeding and a crankbait that time of year once those fish get shallow
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This IS The First Topwater You Should Fish With In The Late Winter/ Early Prespawn Period! by Matt Stefan Fishing → generally bigger baits a lot of times the way they bite it are not extremely aggressive a lot of times what you'll see is almost like a swirl underneath the bait and it just disappears or if you've got a bait with a a feather treble hook on it sometimes they'll just grab that treble hook and pull it under it's really interesting to me there are definitely times they will explode on it and scare the be Jesus out of you but there's also a lot of times where if you're not watching you don't even know that you had a bite and that's because that bait is sitting above those fish and they don't have to come far Fort and they don't need to they don't think they need to come at it with crazy Force to eat it or come at it with such speed because they think it's alive they think it's just something dying there and they're going up and they're just slurping uh the bait off the surface but when you're talking about water temps that are reaching that 50° Mark uh on like the main body of water and your backs of the pockets might be 55 degrees absolutely a time to pick these up they really do well throughout the year but they Excel from that early pre-spawn phase all the way through the spawn and the reason they're so good during the spawn is because once fish have spawned
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Prespawn Bass Fishing with Jerkbaits | Timing, Locations and Best Baits by Wired2Fish → of year i'm not pausing it much i'm fishing the bait a little bit faster i'm wanting you know more of a reaction strike out of it i don't want the fish to get a real good look at it once that water temperature gets up above 50 degrees it doesn't matter if you're fishing in the ozarks doesn't matter if you're fishing up north it doesn't matter if you're fishing down south you don't have to pause that bait as long as you do in traditional cold water jerkbait fishing like you would this time of year here in the ozarks so anyway just remember that if you're fishing in those flats with a lot of grass on there cover a lot of water work the bait a little bit faster don't pause it quite as much go for that reaction strike and if you're fishing the highland reservoirs staying in those secondary points in those transition areas and this is the best time of year that you have the best odds of catching a bass in that eight to ten pound zone regardless where you're fishing in the country during the pre-spawn with the jerkbait just give it a try
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Elite pros answer winter fishing questions by Bassmaster → now we've caught them on top water baits in the mid-40s but I typically put it down 50/50 to is when I'll quit that's when it's not as effective as it capture there are days where you can go out and catch huge fish when it's in the upper 40s but 52 52 52 is features are really good hunter throw buzz baby bit that marks when I start stop throwing it and that's when it's falling to that temperature worry about when it's rising do you pick it back up at 52 or is it different because that's gonna be a pre spawn it's it seems like it's different they get it takes a little bit longer to get on it in the springtime I mean I've caught them on the same temperature of the spring though - I actually caught some Marten Lake Martin they're in our elite elite event there and the water was in the forties upper 40s and it got I think 52 or something on the lake so I got a few our buzz bait there but I think if if you feel like it's warm enough to throw it than you probably should because they're gonna eat it Shawn buzz bait 52 perfect temperature of when he stops throwing it Dustin look for the fish and where they're relating before you drop that to me we're in the studio with Brian Snowden answering a couple fan questions about
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