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By Curtis Niedermier
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PHOTOS BY CURTIS NIEDERMIER
A STRATEGY FOR CATCHING SKINNY-WATER GIANTS DURING THE COLDEST
MONTHS OF THE YEAR
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here’s a little deal Luke Dunkin looks for every winter – a shallow-water pat-
tern involving a subtle balsa crankbait with a heap of potential to produce big
limits, if the conditions are right.
“When the water gets in the 40s and it gets cold, if you catch a sunny winter day,
when it’s calm and the air temps creep up, a lot of times those fish will get up on
isolated cover, really shallow, and you can smash them on that thing,” Dunkin says.
“It’s something we do a lot in January and February. We look for it.”
FLWFISHING.COM I WINTER 2019