But he acknowledges that the worm has its time, and when you let the fish tell you what they want, it could be the difference between a big finish or being an also ran in tournaments. He loves to catch bass on a crankbait and that has accounted for more money in his career than any other bait. I was just trying to make a much bigger profile to keep the little ones away, but the old big ones would pick it up.” To me it’s just like the old mop jig theory. “I will probably get ridiculed, but I actually put the big worm on the back of a football jig and caught several big fish. “I used the crankbait during that event to get my schools fired up, but the big Kriet Tail worm accounted for four or five of my biggest fish,” Lane said. One of his biggest fish in the event fell for a big worm dragged along a shell bed on a ledge. On cue, Lane set the hook and the fight was on. He fired them up with crankbaits but now he turned to his ace in the hole for bigger fish in this event, the Big Bite Baits Kriet Tail Worm. He’d fired the school up on ledge on Lake Guntersville, and now he was searching for a big bite.

Yet Bassmaster Elite Series angler Russ Lane made cast after cast to the same spot. There wasn’t a piece of visible cover to throw at within a mile of the boat. The first cast landed out in the middle of the lake.

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