Deep Cranking with the Crews Missle

Story and Photos by Dan O’Sullivan

Crankbaits are fish catchers. More importantly, crankbaits are fish locators. There may be no better tool for quickly locating biting bass than a lipped diving plug. Shallow, deep, lipless or squarebilled; the crankbait is a lure that most anglers have in bunches.

However effective they are at locating bass, finding the right quality bass is always the trick, and if you grew up around the Carolina’s and Virginias; you know the year-round effectiveness of the crankbait. In the heat of the year, deep crankbaits provide anglers a chance to present a reaction lure to bass on deep offshore structure, and a skilled angler knows how to take advantage of the details.