What's your favorite Pre-Spawn/Spawn Presentation?

For me having most always fished a shallow muddy lake I've always preferred a T-rigged lizard. Being new to the deeper clearer lakes around here I struggled last year with this technique. I have little confidence in C-rigs. Square bills and T-rigged swim baits faired pretty well. What's ya'll go too?

C-rig right next to the river channel in 15 to 20 ft. Staying on contour and dragging from the inside of the slopes toward the channel. I will wait for the lake to get calm then move out to the staging areas. You can catch them coming in and going out on these slopes. It has been my experience that when the wind dies off the bit in the shallow falls off. This has happened many times on Falcon and Amistad. When the bite slows down shallow I go deep. Like any other spots it takes a lot of mapping work to locate and have these deep water spots to go to. I always try to have 3 spots for staging fish. They will be feeding up on one of them.

Pre-spawn I like a football jig, spawn I like a vibrating jig.

Traps at the mouths of creeks

Wacky rig...

A-rig

I'm curious why you wouldn't stick with what you know and are comfortable and just adapt to the lake? If you like T-rig lizards, then do that but go to lighter line and weights until you get bit. We catch a bunch of fish just swimming the stupid things.

BIG swimbait, works in dirtier water than you think

Funny thing about that is last year I tried multiple ways of rigging the soft plastics. Everything from weights to shaky head to size/type of baits. I like to flip shallow cover. One afternoon I got frustrated and just decided to make 5 flips with any given bait, if I got no bite change. Finally got to the t-rig keitech swimbait and BAM!! Caught 3, 3-4 pounders in a 50 yard stretch. That was my last swimbait right before I lost a cylinder on my OB...

Pre spawn - really depending on weather and what the weather has been doing prior to trip. I try to go during a warming trend and I go to the warmest water I can find which is usually shallow spawning flats and I'm talking dirt shallow to 3'. In this sitiution, I'm usually throwing a Hags Tornado on a 1/8 shakey, shallow suspending jerkbait, senko or creature bait. Love a t-rigged baby brush hog!

If weather has been cold and fluctuating, I'm backing off deeper working creeks, creek bends and secondary points. In this case, I'm throwing jigs, chatterbait and traps.

Spawn - I'm up shallow throwing plastics. Flukes and lizards are my favorites.

Brant - It is good to see you posting on here again. It has been a while since we have been fishing together.

8" Lizard. Solid black in off colored water, green pumpkin chart tail in stained.
Light sinker.

swim bait and vibrating jig

Trap or chatterbait til I find them, then a wacky worm.

weightless fluke, wacky, chatter bait, shakey head, and heavy punch lake fork crazy flapper.

I had the same thought Tommy, good to see Brant post

Yeah, I was even thinking going back to Jawtec craws, bass haven't seen any of those in years and I have a gob of'em.

Thanks Tommy and Billy, hoping to be more involved from now on. My son is 12 and has the fishing pox, so that re-invested my interest in this sport. Praying you both are doing well!

I wish I had a bunch of them.... What I really wish if to own his molds.

I love using traps for prespawn bass. Now for spawning fish I prefer a small white jig tipped with a extremely small chartreuse trailer. The small jig helps with hookups and the colors are very easy to see for bedding bass.

Brant's okay I guess....he can't crappie fish for squat though

I think the guys name was Bruce who owned them, don't know what happened to him.

It was Bruce. Every package said "Good Fishing - Bruce."
The company was located in Forney.

Jawtec Worms Inc.
118 W Main St.
Forney, TX 75249

One color he had was "weird 82"...a killer.

Bruce Benedict - Was a really good angler and won a lot of tournaments.

Saw on an old thread where he tried to sell out including all his molds and no takers. Seems he got involved in other things and just quit. Was also on the Forney ISD board. Bought a lot of his baits at the old Fishin Store in Garland.

That's for sure! Though I try and love to feel that "thump" on a jig.

Ken Addington used to rep for Jawtech back in the day.. I believe they made a flip tail lizard that was killer... Honey hole (Jerry Dean) got a hold of some molds of that lizard.. I bought several hundred in different colors, they were the bomb twitched over beds in the shallows. Still have a couple dozen ? Somewhere.... LOL

That's what I had read as well but more recently I believe some people had made contact with him including some that frequent this board and were unable to come to an agreement that suited both parties.

This is Mike Johnson in case you wondered who was messing with you brother.

Wacky rigged Senko type bait, Tx. rigged Senko type bait or Tx. rigged fluke weightless.
Tx. rigged baby brush hog. Square bill crank bait. Craw tube tx. rigged. Light Carolina rig.

I like a lot of stuff. LOL

Mike I have been a fan of Brant for years, the dude can flat out catch'm.. Us Winsborro guys stick together...

Good to hear from you brother, and congrats on the grandbaby!

Your too kind Billy.

We were neighbors for a long time Billy and Brant is married to one of my dearest "adopted daughters" .... Beautiful family!