Pinpointing Prespawners
EVERY YEAR ABOUT this time, legions of bass anglers across the country pack their boats to capacity with boxes of tackle and start motoring across the water with dreams of catching big prespawn bass they hope to be bragging about by nightfall. What they’ve forgotten are the trials and tribulations of locating and catching these fish during this very same season in years past. For many, the prespawn season, as exciting as it might be to dream about, can be a tough time to find bass.
“It definitely can be a difficult time to locate bass, not only because it’s a major transition period for largemouth, but also because that transition of changing from a winter bass to a spawning bass is not the same on every lake,” explains Bassmaster Elite Series pro and 2017 Forrest Wood Cup winner Justin Atkins. “Besides that, in some years it can all happen in
