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Shallow Crankin' Secrets

By Don Wirth
BASSMASTER Magazine, September October 2008

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Turn back the clock to the early '70s. The hottest lures on the BASS Tournament Trail were hand-carved wood crankbaits like the Bagley Balsa B, fat-bodied plugs with short diving lips that triggered hellacious reaction strikes from lunker bass when rooted around shallow wood cover. Then the '80s arrived, and with the new decade came a different bass fishing craze: deep cranking, popularized by pro anglers Paul Elias and David Fritts. Suddenly all those shallow running crankbaits we'd been using ...

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