Best Deep Diving Crankbait Reel

Asa Adams reported catching Largemouth Bass using the Deep Diving Crankbaits (13'+) technique and Shimano Curado DC Casting Reel on Cedar Creek Lake. Additional comments from this report: "The fish here are slowly moving up from the deep summer time homes, find a area that the depth rises gradually and head the fish off with a 6xd. They are looking for a big meal right now to prep for winter!"

Final Flight Outdoors reported catching Largemouth Bass using the Deep Diving Crankbaits (13'+) technique and Shimano Curado DC Casting Reel on Watts Bar Lake. Additional comments from this report: "Fishing off shore schools. Crankbait provided the big bites. Seemed like you had to be making bottom contact to get bit. Took several cast sometimes to trigger a bite. I would switch up to a Neko rig and get a few more to commit when school would quit biting."

Kevin Delzell reported catching Largemouth Bass using the Deep Diving Crankbaits (13'+) technique and Shimano Curado DC Casting Reel on Bangs Lake. Additional comments from this report: "Ledge near bluegill beds"

Troy Booker reported catching Largemouth Bass using the Deep Diving Crankbaits (13'+) technique and Lew's BB1 Pro Speed Spool LFS Casting Reel on Barren River Lake. Additional comments from this report: "Creeks are full of bass but most of my bigger fish have came off the river"

Matt Boyd reported catching Largemouth Bass using the Deep Diving Crankbaits (13'+) technique and Lew's BB1 Pro Speed Spool LFS Casting Reel on Norfork Lake. Additional comments from this report: "Fished a benefit tournament over the weekend and finished 2nd place. Most of the fish I found were on the main bluff walls. The RkCrawler was the main approach but don’t count out the back of creeks, flooded buck brush provided some better sized bass flipping a jig and tossing a spinnerbait. The bite is getting really good so get out as soon as possible."

livinthehydelife reported catching Largemouth Bass using the Deep Diving Crankbaits (13'+) technique and Lew's BB1 Pro Speed Spool LFS Casting Reel on Toledo Bend Reservoir. Additional comments from this report: "Bass was in pre spawn big bass on road beds around stumps."

Ben Hutchins reported catching Walleye using the Deep Diving Crankbaits (13'+) technique and Shimano Curado MGL 150 Casting Reel on John H. Kerr Reservoir. Additional comments from this report: "I caught Walleye by throwing deep diving crankbaits on humps and shoals. I was targeting fish in the 20 foot range."

Justin reported catching Spotted Bass using the Deep Diving Crankbaits (13'+) technique and Shimano Curado MGL 150 Casting Reel on Lewis Smith Lake. Additional comments from this report: "We had a much better day post frontal than expected. We were fishing humps in the 16 to 20 foot range, On a few of the humps, we found humps close together, creating a perfect saddle where blue back herring seemed to be predominantly staying we started with 5XD But quickly found we had to change to 6XD To get to the correct depth to get bit. We fed several humps quickly, noticing if there was no blue back caring, there was no bass if when blowback hearing was present, the number of bass was fairly Good. By chance when moving from spot to spot, we noticed a large amount of schooling bass which we quickly turned around to get close enough to make a cast We didn’t catch any in the first school, but was close to A point and secondary point and tried to fish there they quickly began schooling on the second point to which we were able to make good cast and caught 4. Each point we found them schooling at we noticed was close to a creek channel and deeper water with some suspended fish 8’-11’/12’. We tied on some jig heads in 3/16 3/0 paired with Keitech 3.8” Fat Impact Smallmouth Magic. I normally use electric Shad or chartreuse Shad even. The chartreuse Shad I often use the easy shiner. Casting the fat impact and letting get to the depth I had to painfully slow roll it to get bit. Anything less than an 8.2:1 would have been better but that’s what I had at the time. Should be made fun of probably for be on Smith and forgetting to put the spinning rods back in the rod locker. While we caught a good number of fish for the conditions we had none were unfortunately picture worthy. We did throw a hair jig on some bluff walls, swim bait and spinnerbait in pockets but seemed to be a sightseeing exercise. Didn’t fish any docks with the day being cloudy to mainly cloudy. "

Bmorris07 reported catching Largemouth Bass using the Deep Diving Crankbaits (13'+) technique and Shimano Curado MGL 150 Casting Reel on Lake Eufaula (Walter F George). Additional comments from this report: "Mid June ledge fishing with surface temps around 82-85 degrees. It's important to locate a school of fish before stopping to fish a ledge. Once the school is located, I started with the boat sitting in about 30-35 feet of water casting up to around 7-8 feet of water with a deep diving crankbait to try and generate a big bite and fire up the school. If the bite slowed down on the crankbait, I would follow up with a big worm dragging it on the bottom to get some clean up bites. "