A couple of months back I made another trip to one of my favourite fishing spots, and the night before I decided I wanted to catch a decent fish on a crank as I had lost confidence in crank fishing. This was mainly due to the fact that I had been focusing on plastics and jig fishing.
The fishing started off a bit slow for me as I was throwing plastics as usual. As I was heading over to another promising looking spot I decided to take out my Square bill Rod that already had the Xcite Baits XB-1 Square Bill in Blue Gill colour tied on.
When I reached my spot I made a few casts just playing around with the XB-1 looking at its action with different retrieve speeds.
After making a few casts I noticed some sticks and a nice underwater boulder close to it, I put in the perfect cast tight to the shore line, cranked the handle a few times, paused, and as I cranked again I made the XB-1 deflect off the boulder and it got absolutely crushed, it was one of the best bites I have had on a crank in ages.
I leaned into the fish and knew it was a good one as she broke the surface. She put up a fantastic fight and peeled line a few times. I played her for a while as she was hooked in both the top and the bottom lip and knew she wasn't coming off anytime soon.
I brought her in slowly and lipped this very nice fish.
SQUAREBILL FISHING
BREAKING IT DOWN
with Roy de Wet
Bass Digest/July, 2014