This gives the bass plenty of opportunity to track down the lure. A flat-sided crankbait is a great choice in cold water. These lures don't vibrate as hard as a rounded crankbait, making them better suited to sluggish bass. In early spring, many bass pros fish 'em around shallow logs and stumps, the same places you'd normally fish a spinnerbait. This hookset will drive the point through the tough jaw of bass in much the same way that the blow of a hammer drives a nail through a board.
Nothing is more thrilling than the sound of a lunker bass smashing a surface lure at night.
Use heavy line, and don't set the hook before the fish pull. Try a spinnerbait or jig in a hot color such as blaze orange or chartreuse. These outrageous hues don't look like anything in nature, but they can provoke a reaction strike from a moody bass. Jigs, spinnerbaits, plastic worms and topwater lures will catch bass wherever these great gamefish swim. Other lures will work, too, but always keep these basic baits in the top drawer of your tacklebox.