THE ARTS more Outdoors Printable version. Email this to a friend. Professional bass fishermen reveal their fish-catching secrets about as often as West Virginia University plays football with Marshall. Woo Daves is the exception. He shares his favorite tactics as readily as Mountaineer and Herd fans share insults.
Most anglers consider spinnerbaits to be shallow-water lures.
While they can be fished deep if retrieved slowly, they tend to lose some of their effectiveness. When they do that, they lose the lure's ability to draw that reaction strike. To restore their spinnerbaits' ability to attract reflexive strikes, a handful of Alabama bass fishermen began adding weight to their lures. What resulted was a line of spinnerbaits now marketed commercially as Ledge Busters. In experimenting with the lures, Daves found that he could use a variety of heavily weighted spinnerbaits to fish different speeds at the same depth.