Well I finally got a chance to get out on the water for a bit today and do some fishing. It had been over a month since I last got to cast a bait & I was just about to go crazy.

I made my usual trip out to Lake Fork to fish for a day with my dad. The sun was bright, it was pretty darn hot, 94, & not much breeze at all so I figured that now was as good a time as ever to try & figure out deep water cranking. I've never put much time into deep cranking & it's definitely one of my biggest fishing weaknesses. So my dad & I went to one of our "hot spots" & used the electronics to find something out deeper that looked "bassy". Once again I'm a shallow water fisher & don't use my electronics much so this day was a BIG learning experience for me. We found a channel that was about 3' deeper then the rest of the area & dropped some markers. Dad worked it over with a C-Rig & I was working on my cranking.

About 10 min into fishing dad landed a nice 3lber then I landed a really fat 4lber. Didn't take pictures of these because I totally forgot I had a camera on board >. Oh well. About 25min after that I got hung up in some weeds and was bringing it up to the surface when a beautiful 7lber jumped out & spit my hook. HAHA. Yeah I'm not used to fishing with a fiberglass rod & I totally did not know that I had a fish on. The really sad thing is that the same thing happened again 5min later with a 5lber. Lesson learned. Next time I felt that little heavy tug I gave the rod a nice sweep to the side ended up bringing this nice post spawn bass up. Went for 5lbs 7oz.

I ended up catching 1 more on the day giving me 3 fish & dad boated 4 nice fish. All in all a fantastic day, not because of the fishing but more because of all that I learned. I'm not going to say that I have great confidence in deep diving crankbaits but my confidence is growing quickly

Great Day for sure and really nice that you spent it with your Dad 

Big O

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Sounds like you got the heavy work out of the way. Now you only have some fine tuning to do. It's great to learn a new technique. Nice bass too.