Although the folks talking to me said water temperatures were back in the upper fifties where they saw bass bedding, the should have a successful spawn, especially with the warm days later. Bass can be caught off the bed. Unlike some northern states where bass fishing season is closed until after the spawn, fishing for them is allowed in Georgia and most other southern states. Bass are so successful in the south that they do not need protecting during the spawn. Also, most of our lakes have stained water and many bass spawn too deep to be seen by fishermen.
Male bass move into the shallows and fan a bed on a hard bottom.
It looks like a plate or shallow bowl on the bottom, often near a stump or rock. He stays there keeping it clean untila female over into the areas. She will deposit some eggs in the bed, staying on it for a few hours or longer. Then she may move on to finish laying her eggs in other beds. The male bass will fertilize the eggs and then guard them until they hatch.