Nathan S:

I don’t fish tournaments but try to fish about 3-4 days a week in the spring. I do bed fish and have 2 techniques I like to use. The first is a Zoom finesse worm on a shaky head jig and I try to find the cleanest, white spot on the bed to get the worm on. This will usually anger the male and the female if she is in the mood. The second one I like to use is to take a tiny Storm swim bait that looks like a bluegill and is pre rigged and swim through the area a few times and if that does not draw a strike I will get it again to the white part of the bed. This bait kind of noses down and looks like a bluegill robbing the nest. I got a bunch of these at Target years ago on clearance and I think they still make them but almost all swim baits are available in a bluegill pattern. Hope this helps and gets you some checks next spring.

K:

Normally when I fish tournments in Texas, I would use 4 methods. Either a Texas rigged Watermelon worm or lizard. A buzz bait in black durining the morning. A spinnerbait in Chartruesse and white. Then I will switch to a weightless rigged 6″ Watermelon worm slowly worked.