Welcome back. I fished a couple BFL tournaments on Guntersville the first week of the month (because of a make up), learned a lot. After posting 16 videos on YT in March: this one seems to resonate with the most people. Heavy cover is probably the biggest cliche in bass fishing. And right now with females moving shallow before the spawn, there is one common denominator, in everything they do… STAY SAFE.

Casey. Enjoyed the video on treble hooks on different hard baits. There are 2 ways to put treble hooks on the split rings. Turned one way there is a single leg of the treble down & the other 2 are up (when the lure is being retrieved & hooks are up). Rotated the other way 2 legs of the treble are down & one is up ( this is when you see a hook wear on the bottom of the lure from the single leg wearing against the lure as it it wiggles etc). If you want to make your Squarebills or most any crsnkbait come through cover much better make sure you have the treble with the single leg down & you can bend the hook inward just a bit. You can also do this to the rear hook on deep divers that you may be cranking through deep brush piles. You will be surprised how many fish still get hooked on a treble that is bent inward. The key is making the cranbait hit the cover but not hang to trigger the bites. Having the treble hooks that are “inline” lines one of the legs up in line with the eye. All trebles are not in line & these don’t line up perfectly down. The pic below shows the single leg down alignment on a squarebill. This really helps on lipless baits as to not snag the grass as bad on the from bottom hook ( if bent inward some).

Even in the colder months, a jig you fish on the bottom might not be the slow technique you thought. The right size/type jig paired with two cold water modifications, fished the correct way is your best chance at a fish of a lifetime this Winter.

With many different jig head styles to choose from, it makes fishing too complicated. Jig fishing will always be about patience and confidence, not complexity. If I could go back in time, all purpose would be my main concern - the same jig for swimming and flipping.

If I had to start over bass fishing, this would be one I threw every spring. So many times I failed to catch big fish in the month of March, largely due to the fact that we throw the same chatterbait, crankbait and spinnerbait everyone’s been throwing the past two months. When fishing pressure accumulates but you have big females hanging shallow, a floating trick worm is often forgotten about.