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

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Hey there, fly flingers and base jacers are official lure here.

Sling in the latest on US base action that will make you swap that feather duster for a crankbait.

If you're itching for pre spawn pigs like you hunt rising trout, listen up, spring's heating up the bite nation wide.

First off, monster news from world bass enterprises.

Over 145 top dogs like Tray McKinney, Corey Johnston, Drew Gill, and Jacob Reeler from the Bass Master Elite and MLF Bass Pro Tour just committed to the Champions tournament.

It's the first ever world bass title fight.

October 28th to November 1st on Old Hickory Lake near Nashville, Tennessee with a jaw dropping $3 million purse, $1.25 mill to the winner.

Picture this.

Five days at Sanders Ferry Park, fireworks, flyovers, kid fishing games, and a pro am at Percy Priest with celebs.

Old Hickory is your hotspot right now.

Those ledges and points are calling pre spawn hog shallow.

Speaking of hot zones, bass forecasts 10 day outlook screens opportunity.

Southeast from Florida to Tennessee.

Epic to fair with pre spawn bass pushing to secondary points, transition banks, and flats near spawn coves.

Chuck soft jerk baits, ned rigs, or lipless cranks where you'd niff a tail out.

Southwest like California and Arizona.

Same deal. Multiple patterns firing on big reservoirs.

Rockies and great plain southern edges.

Big females leading the pre spawn charge to migration routes.

Get their first for PB glory.

Even Midwest and Norfolk are thawed and a good to tough winner to pre spawn shifts on drop offs and bluffs with drop shots or spy baits.

Storms brewing, so watch the skies.

But warmer temps mean bank beaters can cast a giants that winner deep.

No massive lunker reports yet, but MLF stage three on Lake Whitney, Texas just launched.

Aught to foe smashed 50 pounds day one on heartwell earlier.

Hint in Texas waters of boiling.

Louisiana's LDWF once your turny results to track the frenzy.

And college bass is heatin' with Montavello taking school of the year lead.

Fly folks, this bass rush mirrors a hacks hatch.

Precise, explosive, bank friendly.

Grab a jig like you tie a stone fly and hit those warming shallows.

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