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May 7, 2020 \u00a0by Jody White<\/span><\/p>\n

Across the country, May is a great time for fishing, with tons of bass in and around the spawn and a lot of baitfish species spawning as well. With warming water, it\u2019s a great chance to throw a topwater for the first time, or really to do just about whatever you want in some parts of the country.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tackle Warehouse Pro Circuit pros know well what works this time of year. Here are some of their favorite baits to throw in May.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Matt Stefan \u2013\u00a0Berkley Choppo 90<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAt home here in Wisconsin, May is our spawning month. The\u00a0Berkley Choppo 90<\/a>\u00a0is a really good bait for drawing fish off beds, but it\u2019s also a really good twitch bait. It\u2019s a topwater that I consider to be very versatile. It\u2019s a great largemouth bait around isolated pieces of cover, but it\u2019s also a fantastic smallmouth bait on those shallow flats. They\u2019ll come up and show themselves so you know where they\u2019re at. Down south, it\u2019s still really good because you get bluegill spawns and shad spawns, and it\u2019s great for burning the banks in the summer months.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Stefan likes the maverick (black) and MF bluegill colors the best, but will throw bone when he\u2019s around a lot of shad. Fishing the bait on a 7-foot, medium-heavy rod, Stefan usually uses 14-pound-test\u00a0Berkley Trilene XL<\/a>, but will go to 30-pound-test braided line with a 15-pound-test mono leader if he\u2019s fishing around heavier cover.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Miles Burghoff \u2013\u00a0Z-Man Mag FattyZ<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI like a Texas-rigged\u00a0Z-Man Mag FattyZ<\/a>\u00a0worm. I use a 5\/0\u00a0Hayabusa WRM957<\/a>, and I like either a 1\/4- or 3\/8-ounce tungsten worm weight. Then I put a\u00a0Fitzgerald Flippin\u2019 Bead<\/a>\u00a0in there between the weight and the hook to create a little clacking sound. Most of May is a postspawn time of year, so I focus on offshore areas where fish are starting to pull out. This time of year, offshore, you can either fish fast and make them react, or fish slow and coax them into biting. It\u2019s a big bait, and it\u2019s a thick design made of ElaZtech, so it stands straight up when you pause it. When you\u2019re crawling it really slow in offshore areas, it gets more bites than any other worm I\u2019ve used.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Bradford Beavers \u2013 frogs and topwater swimmers<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI like fishing in May. The fish are transitioning off the beds, so you\u2019re starting to get fish that are focusing more on feeding than spawning. For me in May, my top bait would be some sort of a frog-style topwater. In April I use slower frogs, like a popping frog. Around May, you\u2019re around fish that like to chase more, so I use regular hollow bodies, Ribbits, Horny Toads and Dippers.\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For his hollow-body frog, Beavers usually goes with a\u00a0BOOYAH Pad Crasher<\/a>\u00a0in white or a dark color. Other topwater baits he likes are a\u00a0Stanley Ribbit<\/a>, a\u00a0Reaction Innovations Skinny Dipper<\/a>\u00a0and a\u00a0Zoom Horny Toad<\/a>. For a follow-up bait, Beavers always keeps a\u00a0Yamamoto Senko<\/a>\u00a0on deck.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Bill McDonald \u2013\u00a0Strike King Slither Rig<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFor May it\u2019s a flipping bait; a 1\/2- or 3\/4-ounce\u00a0Strike King Slither Rig<\/a>\u00a0for me, with a 5\/0\u00a0Hayabusa FPP Straight HD Hook<\/a>\u00a0and a\u00a0Strike King Rage Craw<\/a>\u00a0on the back of it. You can let the fish tell you where they want it, but in May in Indiana and the Midwest, the fish are trying to spawn. I like to flip it in cover and just let it sit, and when I feel any movement, I just set the hook.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

McDonald likes a green pumpkin and blue or black skirt with a matching craw in cleaner water and black and blue with a blue bug-colored craw for cleaner water.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Billy McCaghren \u2013\u00a0Talon Custom Lures Billy Mac Jig<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis time of year I\u2019m going to fish shallow, so I go with a 3\/8- or a 1\/2-ounce\u00a0Talon Custom Lures Billy Mac Jig<\/a>. You can swim it, pitch it and cast it. If it\u2019s not a football jig, that\u2019s the jig I\u2019m using. I\u2019m going to use a white jig around the shad spawn, and that will be happening really soon where I live. There\u2019s a lot of diversity in May, and they\u2019re coming off the spawn and really feeding. A jig is one of the most versatile baits, in my opinion. If we\u2019re not having floods, the fish will start gravitating to the main river on the Arkansas River soon, and they are plentiful and easy to catch when they first come out there.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

McCaghren likes a white jig with a\u00a0Zoom Super Speed Craw<\/a>\u00a0around the shad spawn. For more general-purpose work, he leans on the pumpkin blue color with either a green pumpkin or sapphire blue\u00a0Zoom Super Chunk<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Aaron Britt \u2013\u00a06th Sense Splash Back 70<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe\u00a06th Sense Splash Back 70<\/a>\u00a0is such a versatile bait. I don\u2019t think a lot of people realize you can walk a popping bait as well. And when you do pop it, it makes so much commotion. That time of year is usually the bluegill spawn, and the bluegill spawn or bluegill fire colors are\u00a0perfect. It is so hard for the bass not to eat it. Topwater baits are cool, because you can work them to your rhythm. For me, that smaller size gets more bites, but there are big fish around no matter what when you\u2019re fishing around bluegills in the spring. The more bites you get, the more opportunity you have to catch a big one, and they\u2019re looking for something easy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 7, 2020 \u00a0by Jody White Across the country, May is a great time for fishing, with tons of bass in and around the spawn and a lot of baitfish species spawning as well. 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