Square Bill Mania: The Essential Bass Lure (English Edition)

If you’re serious about catching bass, the essential square bill crankbait deserves top billing in your tackle box. The venerable square bill has been around since the early 1970s and has been a surefire bass catcher ever since for professional and amateur bass anglers alike.

The square bill crankbait’s unique capabilities have helped many of the country’s top professional anglers stuff their livewells with bass year after year. This book features seven of the best square bill anglers in the business, including Kevin VanDam who is regarded as the best bass angler ever, legendary Rick Clunn, Stephen Browning, Tahakiro Omori, Kevin Short, Bill Lowen and Andrew Upshaw.

Their advice on when, where and how to fish square bill crankbaits will have you catching bass like never before.

It all started with the Big O, which was followed by the Bagley Balsa B and other “Alphabet” crankbaits. Today you can choose from myriads of excellent square bill crankbaits offered by a host of lure companies.
What all square bill crankbaits have in common is a square bill and wide body. These features give a square bill its hard-wobbling action and its facility to deflect off cover. The ability to bang into stumps, rocks and other bass lairs without snagging is one of the keys to the square bill’s success. You can run it over bass cover that would snag other lures equipped with treble hooks. And, when a square bill ricochets off an object, it triggers a reaction strike from bass. The bass engulf a square bill crankbait even when they are not in a feeding mode.