While I agree most anglers do use a spinnerbait to search. I truly believe
it is the waters you fish. Since most bass fishing is conducted in the
southern states, it sounds reasonable that spinnerbaits would be used. But
up here in the North, I see more anglers using lipless cranks and jerkbaits
to search for active fish.

I personally throw tubebait in cooler & deeper waters to search, chug-bug
in shallows, hard jerkbait (minnow)& shallow divers in rougher shallows
water, and lipless & spinnerbaits equally in around pencil reeds.

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Craig Bauer
a.k.a. Baugher