foreign
you think you'd kind of want to be burning a crankbait but when you're fishing around grass
it's just it's really kind of more Feathering it around the top of that [ __ ] tail then burn it
trying to get a you'll get a reaction strike when you do hook a little bit of grass and pull it out
but um we go too hard and heavy with it you're going to get buried down in there no they're nice
yeah another nice Bass
nice chunky one let him go but yeah that uh well it doesn't look much like
a bluegill but in this life color water that's a really good bluegill imitator
you know they kind of get a lot of yellow on their sides
just a really good dirty water crank bait cranking grass is a it's a lot different than
you know hard bottom cranking with the exception you know wintertime crank fishing if I'm fishing
you know hard bottom gravel rock whatever it may be I'm usually fishing my crankbait really fast
especially you know in the warmer weather months kind of trying to slow walk us down I don't really
want to crank it down real hard and get buried in the grass it's hard to rip clean on coontail
um obviously can be done but I don't want to like overwork the bait down into it so
kind of just kind of fishing at a pretty slow pace and then when I do get down it
there's one I do get down to the level of that [ __ ] tail kind of slow it down
we got a main one here all kind of sweep it and kind of really try to keep that bait at
the same level versus just steady cranking it where it's going to keep diving on me kind of
fishing almost like a Carolina rig room kind of pumping it along little pauses in there and
really kind of getting it to hover over the [ __ ] tail that I think they're sitting on top of that's
the thing with coontail it's not like milfoilers fish are going to get buried into it they're gonna
they're gonna kind of sit around it sit on top of it because it grows so thick where it clumps up
that they can't really live in it like they do MILF oil so you're kind of just fishing around
it's a crankbait's a really good option for that this feels like a pretty good fish yeah oh
it's kind of what we're fishing there water's off color um one of the chartreuse blue crank bait
oh yeah that's the best one today right there good fish that's the [ __ ] tail we're fishing
right there you know it's it's a fairly Short Grass it's not going to grow to the surface here
um like I said that's stuff's growing at about 12 feet about four foot off the bottom so that's
putting the top of the grass about eight feet about the perfect depth for that little dt8 but uh
yeah really good bluegill imitator the water we've had an LG Bloom here getting some pretty
green water and um you know it's a perfect little bluegill imitator a lot of these Lakes
um up here got stunted bluegills so you know a lot of their forage is really close to that dt8 size
it's really the same size body as a dt6 uh just a little bit different bill on it gets a little
bit more vibration and a little deeper um you know that's really key you know matching that depth to
where you want to be if you're throwing a dg6 you probably wouldn't hardly get bit here in a dt10
you'd be fighting the grass the whole time so it's nice to have options and a beautiful bass are out
here eating bluegills and that thing's the perfect size for them like I said the water's a little
green so that chartreuse blew back so a really good bluegill imitator and we'll throw her back
there he is
main one we can see I was kind of just pumping that crank bit along almost kind of like a fast
Carolina rig just pulling it and pausing reeling up the slack really just keeps that bait right at
that depth on and on it as soon as I start feeling that grass I can kind of when I switch over from
steady wind into that to that pump and retrieve I can really maintain steady diving depth head first
bill wedged exhaust they only got one hooking them we got that bill wedged in there so good
nice chunky bass yeah we're using the 360 now I can see the grass line right over that hard
bottom meets the grass and we're spot lock set up here Dead Ahead of the boat you can see that
[ __ ] fill on there yeah another thing I do with the 360. it's the easiest way for me to line up
just think of it like a clock we're spot locked we got a point coming out this way this leg has
no mapping so um we're kind of learning on the go using our Electronics to see what's in front
of us versus you know going off of a lake Master map so we're off this point I can see the little
[ __ ] tail Edge and I'm spot locked downwind of it staying off of it we got the edge here
it comes out a little bit of hard bottom off the end of it but I can see this is the point
of the grass right here so I'll take my rod and just lay it right over that circle like a dial
that's the outside edge of it right there pointing my rod out so I got a
really good lineup on where to throw and that cash should come right down
the edge of the edge of the [ __ ] tail and be right where the fish are sitting
there's another good one
makes it really easy to line up on the little sweet spots offshore you know
there's nothing visual out here to see with your eyes we're not too far off the bank but
this makes it where your Precision casts and every
time instead of kind of fan casting and hoping you're getting close to it
I'm getting the bait down there and I'll use my rod a little bit to control
my depth a little bit if I feel like I'm getting too deep into the Grassle
I'll pull it up a little bit as soon as I touch that grass I get bit
feels pretty good
feels like these look good you got me in some wings I think
all right I'm throwing this there same ride I threw my ChatterBait on just about every treble
hook bait exceptional top Waters and jerkbaits all my crankings this 74 regular tatula it's a
heavy action glass rod so it's pretty powerful I can fish ChatterBait on it with a big hook and
um you just want better judgment I'm gonna go for it pretty good fish there
um it's a heavy action glass rod so it it it's got pretty good backbone I can fish around grass
but it's still got that slow really moderate action that you need for you know fishing
treble hook baits regardless of the cover you're fishing once you get them hooked up you want to
you want that slow Bend to really keep them pinned