With water temps below 50 degrees a stick bait is a go-to lure. Conditions have to be right. Clear water is best but a little stain doesn't seem to matter. Fish are on the move and a little wind makes this bait perfect. We jerked the bait to depth and then let the bait suspend to a count of 5, then sweep the rod tip and jerk, jerk again. The fish hit on the pause most of the time.
With temps near 80 yesterday and the water warming a bit, 52 degrees, we found fish again moving up on an Illinois lake. Much like we found at Guntersville, the bass were on channel breaks and the Spro McStick was a perfect search bait for these staging bass.
Don't expect to catch a bunch of bass but the ones you do catch are usually good ones!!
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