Early spring fishin in VA!

[Kicksomebass]

Hey guys.. noob here! This is the first year i've really made a concious effort to hit the water earlier. A buddy of mine and I usually wait til mid April to get on the water, but after we've both caught spring fever like a bad case of the munchies, we've decided to hit it earlier. Not to mention the people in our boating group dont like to weather the cooler air, we thought it would be cool to target fish that before the other guys can hit the water.

That being said, I'd love to get some feedback about what our planned attack is going to be. We both have been fishing for a LONG time and know the general movement of the fish, but we've never targeted this pattern.

I know slow is the way to go, therefore we will most likely be using jigs and soft plastics. Right now i have a black/blue 1/2 jig tied up, as well as a texas rig for worm, a weightless for senko's, cuz it's my go-to, a white spinnerbait with a fluke as a trailer, and finally i have a rod with a deep diving suspending crank bait. I've been doing quite a bit of research watcing vids and reviews (my girlfriend thinks i'm absolutely insane lol) and we are generally going to be fishing these things on the shelfs/slopes leading up to flats. I've also looked at a lot of satellite imagry (thank you google earth) of the water we will be fishing and have marked points and dropoffs that are visible from above.

I have been reading a lot and these motives make the most sense to me, and if anyone on here who has done more early spring fishing could give me feedback it would be awesome.... Thanks a lot in advance..


Derek