I throw a football jig early in the year now. I just drag them on the bottom like a crawdad running a way stiring up some mud. Then let it sit so your craw trailer claws go up like when their in defence mode. I throw them into the lose weeds weeds and in front on the edge of thick weeds. In spawn hit the nest with a havey jig 5/8 or 3/4 if they can't knock it away they eat it. Here's a cool trick I learned using spinnerbaits and it works well with jigs also. If you have tree sticking out of the water cast at them so it hits the tree and makes a thump. Let it drop straight down and when hits bottom if it gets their drag or hop it back with stop and go's. Spinnerbait just bring it back how ever you like. It should make them ambush it or it just
them off so they whant to kill it for waking them up. I don't know what its called but we call it Tree Knock'n. The only down fall is it can spook them so if it don't work on a couple pf trees lay off till later. Good Luck STI beat me on this one.
