My 2-cents...immedetly fallowing a hard winter..and with "a good shad kill";...the shad that do survive are very slow, weak and slugish...easy pray for bass...thus schools of bass will "home in" on the small weak schools of shad during these periods in Feb. / March, thus pormoting even more bass to "get in on the action"...that is why working a CB nice and slow..with a tight wiggle, or a very very slow side to side wiggle...promotes a reaction bite during early spring; also why a jerk bait small twitch method, and sitting still for a count of 12 is hard to beat. Also...a hard winter itself....like when the lake freezes over...after the ice melts...I think the bass are what I call a "fight or flight" syndrome. The winter was espiscally hard on them...thus they eat a bunch...and big...to get their strenth about themselves once the water gets in the high 50's.Originally Posted by offdtop
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