After the sun gets up a jig head worm, jig and pig or Carolina rig will catch them. A spinnerbait or jerk bait worked across the point early will get hit, as will a topwater bait. To catch a lot of bass Kelley will fish secondary points in the bigger creeks and coves, looking for schools of spots. After the sun gets up he goes back around the shallows and throws a Trick worm or weightless lizard to bedding bass. He works around the shallows fast looking for a reaction strike. In tournaments Kelley will go to the bedding pockets first thing and go around them with a buzzbait or big stick bait like a Spook. Largemouth will slam a topwater bait early in the morning then you can sight fish for them on the beds with a jig head worm, Trick worm and a lizard. Spots are concentrated on points and can be caught on topwater baits, spinnerbaits, jerkbaits, jig head worms, a jig and pig and a Carolina rig. “April is a great month for both spotted bass and largemouth,” Kelley told me. Since the largemouth were not bedding yet he stuck with a jerk bait all day and caught the big spots. On March 5 he came in 5 th in the BFL on Martin with five spotted bass weighing 14.9 pounds. This year he is fishing the FLW Everstart and BASS Open tournaments as well as local tournaments on Martin. He has done well in tournaments on the lake, finishing second in the BFL Super Tournament there a couple of years ago. Kelley Jaye has lived in Reeltown since he was 12 years old and has been fishing Martin since then. Spots are fun to catch and you can catch a bunch of them right now, but for tournament fishermen you want to fish for largemouth for a heavy stringer. They bed deeper and are hard to catch by sight fishing but are aggressive and will hit many baits fished where they are holding. Spotted bass will be feeding on deeper points and will start looking for bedding areas in April. By late March many largemouth buck bass will be in the shallows scouting for bedding spots and the big females will be close behind. It is known for its spotted bass but it has a good population of largemouth, too. Martin is a big clear water lake north of Montgomery on the Tallapoosa River.

It is a dream month for bass fishing, and you can make your dreams come true at Lake Martin. April is the month most bass fishermen dream of, with big sow bass in shallow water on the bed and bass of all sizes roaming the shallows feeding.

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