Square bill question

[snowplow]

I was just trying to figure out if you're supposed to grind a square ball on the bottom or not. Obviously you can choose to or not but I didn't know if it was intended like a crankbait.

[moloch16]

Short answer, you can get bit bouncing them off things, or you can get bit just swimming it in open water, just depends on where the fish are and what they want.  At my local late in the summer the bass are in open water hanging out under shad balls, so swimming any crank bait at the correct depth can elicit strikes.

 

Not far from that lake is a river that is just full of wood laydowns.  I pull Lucky Strike RC 1.5 crankbaits over those logs and the bass just love it!  And it's a great way to fish you often see the strike as the crankbait comes over a log.

 

Bouncing a squarebill of rip-rap is another great technique, bass love it.

 

So it all depends and you don't always HAVE to be digging bottom or banging cover, but sometimes that's the right thing to do, and sometimes the right thing is in deep water just swimming it along not hitting anything.

 

For banging cover can't beat the Lucky Craft RC 1.5, I don't think anyone has topped it, if they have please let me know

[gulfcaptain]

On 5/9/2024 at 8:14 PM, papajoe222 said:

For those of you that have talked about fishing a square bill deep, can you mention what baits you get to run deeper than 6ft. Most of the ones on the shelves here are shallow runners.

Rockcrawler, 1.5 deep, I look at a 3xd as a modified squarebill, the bigger squarebills, (8.0) coffin billed cranks. And you can always break out your inner Paul Elias,  stick that 7'2" rod down in the water and kneel and reel to get them squarebills down there.

[rangerjockey]

9 hours ago, moloch16 said:

Short answer, you can get bit bouncing them off things, or you can get bit just swimming it in open water, just depends on where the fish are and what they want.  At my local late in the summer the bass are in open water hanging out under shad balls, so swimming any crank bait at the correct depth can elicit strikes.

 

Not far from that lake is a river that is just full of wood laydowns.  I pull Lucky Strike RC 1.5 crankbaits over those logs and the bass just love it!  And it's a great way to fish you often see the strike as the crankbait comes over a log.

 

Bouncing a squarebill of rip-rap is another great technique, bass love it.

 

So it all depends and you don't always HAVE to be digging bottom or banging cover, but sometimes that's the right thing to do, and sometimes the right thing is in deep water just swimming it along not hitting anything.

 

For banging cover can't beat the Lucky Craft RC 1.5, I don't think anyone has topped it, if they have please let me know

Agreed, the RC 1.5 is the best. Everyone has tried to copy it and I'm sure some of them are really close like the old Excaliber version and the Luck E Strike is great also. 

I've got a few left. The RC 1.5 DD was kinda the forerunner to the RK Crawler.