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Kneeling and Reeling Bill Adcock

In Kneeling and Reeling Bill Adcock, we look into the history of the technique used to get crankbaits deeper and the man who started it all.

In Grits Gresham – 1969 we look back at one of the most prolific writers of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s when it came to bass fishing.

Iovino’s Shaking looks back at western bass pro Don Iovino and his doodling technique, which in the late 1980s was finally moving east.

In today’s post, Wacky Rig or Twinking, we look at possibly the first public display of what would become known as the Wacky Rig.

Ron Shearer Skips to Wins looks back at the origin of the skipping technique first popularized by pro angler Ron Shearer in the early 1980s

Doodle Socking 1961 looks back on the old method of the long rod/shallow water technique of presenting a lure and contrasts it with flippin’

It’s Called Crispin’ is a look back at the dawn of the jerkbait craze that took over the U.S. in the early 80s and the man who popularized it