Cold Water Cranking with Brent Ehrler

One of the most often overlooked ways to catch fish in the early spring is by throwing a crankbait. They are very popular around the country in late spring through fall, but they are often a neglected tool when bass begin moving from their winter haunts toward spawning areas.

To me, crankbaits are the perfect tool for targeting two areas that bass use in their winter to spring transition. In most of the country, bass are in between one of two areas this time of year; on secondary points heading into spawning areas, or in the backs of creeks feeding and preparing for the spawn.

I really think about the techniques of catching them as two separate approaches, but seeing that they are interrelated, I’ll discuss both here. There is the deep approach, and the shallow approach, and they are unique to themselves.

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