Spring Bass Fishing 2024: Pre-Spawn Bite Heats Up Nationwide With $3 Million Champions Tournament

Hey there, fly flingers and bass chasers, Artificial Lure here, slingin' the latest on US bass action that'll make you swap that feather duster for a crankbait. If you're itchin' for pre-spawn pigs like you hunt rising trout, listen up – spring's heatin' up the bite nationwide. First off, monster news from World Bass Enterprises: over 145 top dogs like Trey McKinney, Cory Johnston, Drew Gill, and Jacob Wheeler from the Bassmaster Elite and MLF Bass Pro Tour just committed to The Champions tournament. It's the first-ever world bass title fight, October 28 to November 1 on Old Hickory Lake near Nashville, Tennessee, with a jaw-droppin' $3 million purse – $1.25 mil to the winner! Picture this: five days at Sanders Ferry Park, fireworks, flyovers, kid fishin' games, and a pro-am at Percy Priest with celebs. Old Hickory's your hot spot right now – those ledges and points are callin' pre-spawn hogs shallow. Speakin' of hot zones, Bass Forecast's 10-day outlook screams opportunity. Southeast from Florida to Tennessee? Epic to fair, with pre-spawn bass pushin' to secondary points, transition banks, and flats near spawn coves – chuck soft jerkbaits, Ned rigs, or lipless cranks where you'd nymph a tailout. Southwest like California and Arizona? Same deal, multiple patterns firin' on big reservoirs. Rockies and Great Plains southern edges? Big females leadin' the pre-spawn charge to migration routes – get there first for PB glory. Even Midwest and Northeast are thawin' into good-to-tough winter-to-pre-spawn shifts on drop-offs and bluffs with drop shots or spybaits. Storms brewin', so watch the skies, but warmer temps mean bank-beaters can cast to giants that wintered deep. No massive lunker reports yet, but MLF's Stage 3 on Lake Whitney, Texas, just launched – Ott DeFoe smashed 50 pounds Day 1 on Hartwell earlier, hintin' Texas waters are boilin'. Louisiana's LDWF wants your tourney results to track the frenzy, and college bass is heatin' with Montevallo takin' School of the Year lead. Fly folks, this bass rush mirrors a hex hatch – precise, explosive, bank-friendly. Grab a jig like you'd tie a stonefly and hit those warming shallows. Thanks for tunin' in, tight lines. Come back next week for more. This has been a Quiet Please production, and for me check out Quiet Please Dot A I. For more http://www.quietplease.ai Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.