I FAILED at Crankbait Fishing, Until I Understood THIS!

It’s a shame that fisherman have to use forward facing sonar instead of having skills like the pros of old. People like Bill dance, Roland Martin, Jimmy, Houston, Ken Cook, Paul Elias, and the list goes on and on. Those professionals looked at a body of water, looked at a chart and figured out where the fish should be. It seems that they want to take the “fishing” part out of bass tournaments and now it’s basically I see them on a screen. As one angler side of the bass, master classic, you can’t catch them unless you can see them. Sad.

I love trolling crankbaits for bass. I find it’s the best way to cover water and keep the lure down there when they’re hitting cranks.

I do not need sonar yet, I toss crankbaits year round

Crankbait fishing is definitely in my arsenal!! Over the years, I’ve caught some of my biggest bass ever on deep diving and shallow running Crankbaits!! Great video Ben 🔥🔥

Dommage que la traduction en français soit de très mauvaise qualité, ça semble intéressant.
Mais il y a trop de contradictions en français

Love the spros in the spring. My home lake is really pressured so I don't generally have much luck with hard baits, but those will get me bites on days where I need to trigger them a bit more.

I thought it was interesting that they were using crankbaits used with FFS. I kept hearing crankbait sales were declining because of FFS. It will be interesting to see if that changes. It was also interesting seeing Trey McKinney stroking a jig with FFS as well and how aggressively he was doing it.

Thanks for reintroducing me to the deep diving crankbait. I readily use and have success with squarebills and shallow diving cranbaits and have not put much effort into using deep divers even though I have a bunch of them in the boat. Probably a confidence thing. This spring I'll devote some time into looking for hard spots in the areas you suggested and put them to work.