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There she is.
Thats why you skip a jig on docks during the prespawn
I' m gonna come back there
all right
z-man cross eyes flipping jig big old fat free spawner that's why you want to flip
a jig on lead in banks whether it's boat docks
whether it's lay downs we just got another bite on the grass bed when that
water temperatures over about 52 they gonna start coming back in these
spawning pockets. It's a nice fish let her go. A term I use a lot throughout the
entire year really but especially pre spawn and post spawn is short pockets
and by short pockets I mean pockets that have maybe eight docks in them and it's
right off the main lake and now the reason that I focus on those in the pre
spawn is because oftentimes you'll find the first shallow bass of the year in in
these short pockets and I say that because the Creek or river channel isn't
but a hundred yards away so they can respond quicker and easier
to slight temperature changes as the water warms up now over my shoulder back
here is where the bass are going to go eventually to spawn. It's sand as you can
see on the bank it's a sand flat and it's a south-facing short pocket and
bass for whatever reason really like to spawn on the south-facing pockets so
what I'm trying to do is just intercept so I know they've been in that that
river channel behind me and now is it's warming up I know where they're going so
they got to be somewhere between on this 150 yard zone right here and of course
the easiest and most obvious targets are docks or lay downs or grass anything. My
favorite bait for fishing these little short pockets because I'm trying to pick
pick these fish apart they're not always going to be reactive to a moving bait
this time of year waters still pretty cold they're still
pretty lethargic sometimes you have to make them by a little bit so I like fishing a
smaller jig I use about half ounce size the one I'm using today happens to be a
Z-Man cross-eyes flipping jig and it's got a real tight compact profile it
doesn't get hung up easily and for the trailer I chose to use a
really subtle tight kicking action. I've got a zoom ultra vibe speed craw on
here I'm sure we all got a couple packs laying around somewhere and there one
of the best wintertime or very early spring jig trailers you can use because
they displace enough water but they don't overwhelm those lethargic fish and
turn them negative on you it's just real nice and subtle but it still gets just
enough attention to getting a lot of bites something else you can look out
for this time of year in our early spring late winter actually any time the
waters below sixty degrees are these metal boat and jet ski lifts they hold a
lot of heat. Even if the Sun peeps out for a couple hours on these dreary
days they hold a lot of heat and the bass right up next to them it's
important to understand that this short pocket deal when you get on it it's very
easy to duplicate through out a lot of the lake
for instance one day like in the when the water temps I don't know 50 to 52
degrees when it's just starting to warm up and get in that pre-spawn mode you
might get on a pattern where you're catching them in the front house of
short pockets and then mid fifties you'll catch them maybe in the middle a
short pocket as you get closer to 60 probably in the backs of the short
pockets so it's very easy to replicate like I said you can really run
it Lake wide and get pretty dialed in on these fish very easy pattern no matter
what your skill level is you you can catch them doing this