hey guys welcome to wendell fishing darren here today i have the square bill crankbait i'm going
to show you how to fish it where to fish it when to fish it and what gear to fish it with here
we go the square bill this thing is a great for shallow water fishing i'm talking about fishing
in five feet of water or less and the beauty of the square bill is actually designed to
fish pretty heavy cover and you might be thinking man i'm going to get this thing caught up but it
actually deflects cover really well the designs on these things are endless um some of them have
bbs in it this one has a bb in it to make kind of clicking sounds try to get that reaction by
others don't have anything in it and they use just the thumping sound to get the attention
of those bass so how do you fish the square belt crank bait now this thing's going to be a great
search bait for you it's going to cover a ton of water and you're going to want to beat this thing
to death if you beat this thing to death if you're hitting cover and hitting stumps and hitting rocks
you're fishing this correctly you know a lot of times when we fish we're trying to all we see a
stump or we see a piece of cover and we kind of fish next to it and we're like i still want to
get caught up i don't take my boat i want to take my kayak over there that is not how you fish the
square bill crankbait you want to throw this out hit as much cover as you possibly can and you do
this because you want to get that reaction bite and yes you'll get caught up every once in a while
but man that's what this thing was designed to do so with most lures there's a lot of different ways
that you can retrieve the lure but for the square bill crankbait you're just going to cast it out
and do a steady retrieve all the way back and the key here is you want to make contact with
the bottom to get those trigger bites and so you're going to find you're going to be
fishing water and you want to find a square bill that's the size that's going to take
this the depth that is actually lower than the depth of the body of water that you were fishing
because you want this thing to maintain contact on the bottom of that body of water once again
you want to touch everything you possibly can with the square bill so if you're new to fishing you
know that you have to take the water temperature into consideration so if your water temperature is
below 60 degrees you're going to want to move this fairly slow much lower than you usually would be
now if the water is 60 degrees plus you can move this a lot faster so keep that in mind when you're
fishing the square bill when you're running a lure into everything you can find especially with
two exposed treble hooks you're gonna get caught up so when i fish i fish a bomber and when i go
fishing in pennsylvania in the rivers there's a lot of river rock a lot of times i get my square
bill caught in the river rock being that i fish a lot of a lot of cover all the time especially in
the pads that you see behind me i'll get my lures caught in and i just rip them out but when you're
fishing the bottom especially in rock and you get your lure caught don't try to horse it out there
just stop for a second these things float a lot of times they'll wiggle their way back up and you'll
free your lure fishing is things through shallow grass a lot of times uh guys will give up they get
it caught in the grass and they think that cast is a loss it is not rip it through the grass i can't
tell you how many times i ripped it through the grass and got a reaction bite from a bass on the
other side so don't consider it a loss if you get this thing caught up just kind of pull it through
the grass and you'll be good to go we all have our favorite crankbaits let me know what yours is
in the comment below i might end up buying it you might see it in my next video all right moving on
these things are not designed to be fished deep so what you're going to want to fish us around
is a lot of cover and if you're new to fishing covers the stuff on top of the water structure is
the topography of that body of water that you were fishing i like fishing this on a lot of weed lines
shallow weed lines or above kind of grass maybe if the grass is kind of i can still see it maybe
it's two three four feet i'll run this over top of it and man bass will kill this thing if you're
running on top of grass or down a weed line i'm also reaching behind in my kayak crate the grab
the square bill if i see rip-rap now if you're not familiar with what rip-rap is it's essentially any
place on your body of water where man has put rock so i know on this particular lake there's
a train that runs along the far side of this lake and all along that side of the lake is man-placed
rock and that's where fish love to hang out so i'm going to be running this thing down that rip
rap bang it against as much rock as i possibly can to get those bass to bite question is when do you
fish this now the square bill crankbait will catch fish all year long but i'm bringing this bad boy
hooking it up in spring and in fall and this is when i have the most luck with the square bill
and to be honest with you i don't fish in summer a whole lot i know you can but i pull out a lot
of my soft plastics and utilize those during the summer but spring and fall break this guy out of a
gear am i using for the square bill crank bait um usually i'm using a bait caster i'm going to use
probably anywhere from 12 to 18 pound fluorocarbon line i want a medium heavy stiff stiffer rod uh
seven foot plus and depending on when i'm fishing if i'm fishing if i'm gonna be fishing in the
spring or in the fall my retrieve is gonna be a lot slower so my gear ratio on my reel is gonna be
in the five and six to one if i'm fishing in warmer water which i don't very often then i'm
gonna hook this up to a seven to one plus cause i wanna move this a lot faster come
on now if you're getting value please hit the like button let me know you're there
so in a nutshell you wanna break this out when you wanna cover a lot of water you want a great
search bait you're fishing shallow and one to five foot you see a lot of heavy cover you want
to bump it off your rocks you want to bump it off your laydowns you want to bump it off your stumps
you want to run it in and through the grass lines i'm gonna run it along that rip rap and
this is a must-have for spring and fall hope this helps guys thanks for watching see you later bye