Guys,
I have always heard that your crankbait needs to run perfectly straight to give you the best chance for a strike. After fishing yesterday and watching some shad moving in the shallows, they hardly ever move in a straight line, always zigging and zagging back and forth, sideways etc. I understand that you want your bait to move straight so you will know where it is when you are wanting it to hit some structure that you have located but I sometimes wonder if this is not overblown, that is if your bait slightly tracks to one way or the other will it have a big impact on lack of strikes. I do know that I have had great success by making my crankbaits track way off to one direction so that I can get it completely under floating docks where some feel that you can only access by skipping a bait under it. Just getting some opinions on this.
