I personally like a Hildebrant 3/8oz gold blade bl/yl skirt Snagless Sally with a piece of Uncle Josh pork frog on the back of it at this time of the year in south Alabama. Now that being said, worm fishing with a Texas rig will probably be a good place to start depending on the water temperature.

If you're up in Wisconsin's Northwoods, the best bait i've found is a chatterbait.

Early spring/prespawn: suspending jerkbaits, finesse jigs, (slow moving baits)
Spawn: Any texas rigged soft plastic(tubes, lizards, etc.) Can use tons of lures at this time
Postspawn: Early morning topwaters, floating jerkbaits, spinnerbaits

You can fish basically any lure throughout the spring, just try different techniques and find out your favorite

i could tell you the bait we use to catch all of our bass big bass too but its a secret bait the 2nd best we use is a black powerworm

Jig in pig dark blue, slow rolling a white spinnerbait, Strike King series 3 crankbaits.... for spincasters Those cheap Johnson Beetle Spin lures work great.

Plastic lizards are the way to go. Unbeatable.

If your down here in northern Mississippi, i recommend the pumpkin seed power worms with the bright chartreuse tails for soft plastics, and for the crank baits, i recommend a Bandit, 6-8 feet deep runner, try both natural colors or fluorecent