I’m going to share with you a technique that flat-out catches fish when the water is cold! When most anglers think about a blade bait, they think deep water like 10, 20, even 40 feet down in the winter, and that absolutely works. But here’s something a lot of people overlook: that same metal blade bait can be just as deadly in shallow water when the water is cold. I’m talking 10 feet or less, and many times only 2 to 5 feet. The biggest reason this works so well is pressure. Almost nobody is throwing a blade bait shallow. […]
Last time — Part 5 of Fall and Early Winter Baits Choices — we talked about boot tail swimbaits. They’re super important so I devoted a whole blog to them. But then I started thinking that there are other finesse swimbaits that deserve attention. In fact, the whole subject of finesse swimbaits deserves more attention. We’ll start by taking a quick look at the big picture. Finesse swimbaits have been around for years. We just didn’t call them swimbaits. We called them grubs. Look at any of the old grubs — most are still made today — and you’ll see […]
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