Phat Fishing with Terry Corum
I had the chance to catch up with Pradco, Yum pro Terry Corum for an evening of fishing on Smithville Lake. We loaded Terry’s 21 foot Gambler bass boat into the water and made our way down the lake. Terry’s Gambler just zoomed across the water. I’ve never been in a Gamber before and I will say that they are one fast boat. On the deck were a dozen rods. Terry had rigged up a couple of Bomber Model B crankbaits, an Excalibur XW6 Wake Bait, a couple of Bomber Model A’s, a texas rigged Yum Wooly Hawgtail, and a Yum Wooly Bug. Also on deck was a Smithwick Rogue with a red lip and a shakeyhead rigged Yum Money Crawl.
We started out fishing a series of wooded points and flats that had some nice grass beds that extended out a ways from the bank. Terry was working the floating rogue with a couple of twitches while I had picked up one of the Model B cranks. Terry said not too many people throw a rogue around here after it warms up. He talked about how hes caught some hefty limits out on Smithville with this technique. He also talked about how he had just gotten back from fishing down at Truman Lake where he was slaying the bass on the bait.
I was casting and reeling the crank like I would with any other crankbait. Terry said that there’s another way to fish these fat bodied cranks. Terry took the time to explain to me that probably the best way to fish these fat bodied cranks is to twitch them on top the water. Terry picked up another rod with a Model B on it and began to work the bait around the shoreline wood. Terry made a long cast to a laydown and let the bait rest for a minute on the surface. He gave the bait a nice twitch to get it to go just under the surface and when the bait came back up he made another two twitches when all of a sudden a bass just knocked the heck out of it .
Terry leaned into the fish and got it into the boat. The fish was over 3lbs and just as fat as a football. It was Definately post spawn. It had just absolutley swallowed the crank. Terry said yeah if your going to fish these cranks like this you better have some needle nose pliers on hand because the bass really have the tendency to almost swallow this crank all the time. He said even the little ones will inhale it. I had never really used a crankbait before in this manner. Most of the time when I’m fishing something near the surface I’m throwing a pop r or a spook. Terry said yeah not too many people throw these baits like this. He said that is probably why it works so good. That is the thing about getting in the boat to fish with different people. You almost always come away with a technique or a tip or two that you haven’t thought of before. I’m definately going to be using this technique from now on.
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