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SPRING: Water Temp 60-70

Try Soft plastics especially Lizards and crawdads, jigs or lipless crankbaits. Try natural colors like browns, blacks and blues to bright reds, yellows or orange depending on whether it's early (coming out of winter) in the season or later (going into the summer). Focus around shorelines especially around structure near spawning areas.

SUMMER: Water Temp above 70

Try topwaters, buzzbaits, spinnerbaits, crankbaits, lipless crankbaits, spoons, soft plastics (worms, lizards, snakes etc).  Try Topwaters (buzzbaits, poppers, plugs etc) in the early morning and evenings. Use crankbaits near points, creek channels and near structure during the day. Try soft plastics near grass and plants, stumps and around ledges. Bright colors and flash work well in summertime.

FALL: Water Temps 50-70

Try jerkbaits, jigs, spoons, spinnerbaits, soft plastics fat crank baits. Bass are opportunistic feeders and are looking for big easy meals preparing for winter. Try big jerkbaits in the morning, jigs and texas rigged worms near vegetation, slow roll spinnerbaits around shorelines and flashy spoons in open and deep areas especially around drop-offs. Brighter colors in early fall but more natural colors as autumn moves through.

WINTER:  Water Temps below 55

Try jigs, plastics, spoons, slow moving wobbling crankbaits. Try deep and move slow with light colors. Jigging with jigs and spoons over deepwater structure and humps may produce as well as slow cranking  fat crankbaits in channels and near deepwater structure. Texas rigged plastic worms worked slowly may draw a strike too. Keep colors to whites, tans, light grays etc.

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