I went out this afternoon after the rain we had in NC and started fishing a weedline at one of my local ponds. I landed three on a jig, and decided to throw my shallow A around the weeds to give em something to chase. Im not a crankin guy at all lol. Iv caught maybe 4-5 quality fish on crankbaits in the few years Iv been seriously fishing.. Id much rather fish bottom contact baits, but anyway; I landed three more on the shallow A, but it had me questioning how to use the lure. For the guys who use these, and have a lot more experience; are you working the lure just under the surface to where you can see a "V" in the water as you work it back, or is it a more productive bait sub-surface, with some kind of cadence (stop and go, etc)?

Sometimes I'll fish it like a jerk bait! Other times just burn it, I do the subsurface thing sometimes! I'm not a huge crank guy though!

How were you catching them?

Two grabbed it before I really had time to think about it, and the third was foul hooked through the eyeball.

If you in more open water try a stop and go, if your in an area with lots of hard cover try to bang and bump them off the cover to get strikes.

These are similar to a Manns 1 minus and the Storm sub wart and I like to fish them fast over tops of weeds and over shallow rock flats. The "v" wake is better done with a Bomber long A, on a slow steady retrieve the tighter action allows the bait to make a wake where the shallow running cranks make more of a bulge.