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As he spins, the angler will of course devise retrieves of his own. That is how I worked out one of my killers. I was bait casting on a lake, and in trying for extra distance, got a back lash. The lure settled t the deep bottom, almost beneath the boat. In picking out the back lash, I must have jiggled the lure because, suddenly, I got a hard strike and unprepared, missed. I would have thought little about it beyond the cussed perversity of bass if I hadn't gotten another strike as I reeled up the lure. This time I set the hook and was fast to the one and only good-sized fish of the day. It didn't dawn on me until that evening that I should have tried that vertical retrieve again. Since then, I do it quite frequently and the spinman will find it a mighty good addition to his repertoire of retrieves. When over a weed bed, let your lure drop straight down. Rest it a couple of seconds, and then reel it straight up. Next time, jig it up, keeping it wobbling and weaving. Sure you'll get hung up occasionally, but just as often you'll hang up into an animated hunk of flesh. Now why should a halfway intelligent fish fall for a straight-up retrieve? Ever see a minnow come to the surface from a weed bed? Or a nymph? And so, you see, it's a natural action.
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