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Originally Posted by tenncrappie

There's info there to last a lifetime Dux!!!!!!!

Yes there is Chris. I also learned a lot watching Russ Bailey's videos with Kent Driscoll. I took everything I could watch or read, applied it to my set-up as I learned and could afford better equipment, and tried to stay open mined enough to change the way I did things as I learned new and different things. I still say I would never have gotten as proficient at pulling cranks if I had not gone to remote control trolling motors--first a V2 Powerdrive then my Terrova 80 i-pilot. Next was going to the Okuma Magda line-counter reels then starting to paint my own baits and repaint other brands to suit my and the fish's tastes.

I teach a lot of folks to pull cranks and have a lot of folks fish with me who have done it for some time. Pretty much to a person, I learn something new from them and they from me. No telling how many have asked why I do something a particular way. They then say "I never thought about that or doing it that way". Trial and error with a basic knowledge and good equipment is the only way to learn.

I started trolling lures on Lake Barkley and KY Lake in the late 60s with a green box Lowrance flasher on the boat seat next to me. I sure am glad things have improved from those days. I still wish I could go back and pick the brains of some of those old-timers who were willing to help a snot nosed kid learn the ways they did it then.

I learned deep water structure bass fishing from some of the best tournament anglers in GA in the late 70s and early 80s. They taught me to find a reason that fish hang out on a particular ledge or drop and what to put in front of them to catch them.That helps me a lot when I take a lake map, lay it out and look at the minute detail of what might make a spot better then others. Some of my best spots have come from time spent studying lake maps at home or my shop them eliminating water that is probably not as good as some other spot. Of course I have to fall back on the old "A blind hog will sometimes find an acorn" also.