Pete Gluszek was recently filming on Lake Champlain for an upcoming Bass University exclusive series called "BU Bucket List". During filming, Pete hit an active school of largemouth that were eating one of his favorite moving baits, a Wiggle Wart. Watch and learn as Pete shares some tackle tips, ...

Aaron Martens and David Swendseid from Duo Realis join The Bass University to talk about something they are both passionate about, designing effective hardbaits for catching bass. Duo Realis has been hard at work making hard baits that meet Aaron's exacting expectations of baits he fishes on tour...

Bassmaster Elite Series angler Matt Herren returned to The Bass University in Gadsden, AL to discuss an old school bait, that many anglers have put away, and many young anglers have never thrown. Proven fish-catchers, balsa baits have often been displaced by plastic-bodied plugs in the modern tac...

Gerald Swindle is back on Lake Guntersville with The Bass University to talk about offshore structure fishing. Ride along as Gerald looks for some bass schools on offshore structure and targets them with a Rapala DT Series Crankbait.
Swindle's Offshore Cranking on Guntersville Class Chapters

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Pete Gluszek is the Dean of The Bass University, and in 2019, he was in Columbus, OH to teach a bass fishing class seminar titled "Fishing on the Edge", which is also the title of another angler's autobiography. In this class, Pete talks about the best times to fish edges, baits he recommends (in...

Bryan Thrift has won over $2.5M in professional bass fishing tournaments, primarily with the FLW Tour. He has 10 FLW wins and 63 top ten tournament finishes. A lot of his success has come from fishing various types of brush from brush under docks to offshore brush on humps and flats. Not all brus...

A squarebill crankbait wins a lot of tournaments! They differ from traditional round-lipped diving crankbaits, for instance, most other crankbaits, if tossed into a laydown, are not coming back to you. So, while the squarebill is known for catching fish out of shoreline cover, Mark Zona is here t...

2019 Bassmaster Classic bass fishing tournament champion Ott Defoe believes heavily in modifying baits. Since he was young, he's been hand-crafting crankbaits and making alterations to baits to increase his condfidence in their fish-catching ability. In this video, Ott Defoe will talk about some ...

Lexington, NC cranking legend David Fritts joined The Bass University at the 2019 Bassmaster Classic. David was one of the innovators of offshore cranking, who has won 11 top-level tour events between FLW and BASS and a Bassmaster Classic in 1993. David and Pete reminisce about the times when the...

Mark Daniels Jr., a former FLW Tour and Bassmaster Elite series angler, who is now fishing the MLF Bass Pro Tour, was in Tulsa, OK in January to talk about shallow cranking. MDJ loves shallow cranking and has been with Bill Lewis lures for many years, he has recently co-developed a 6ft. crankbait...

One of our most popular presenters, "Dollar" Bill Lowen, is back with The Bass University in Kokomo, Indiana to talk about seasonal shallow water cranking. Bill grew up fishing the rivers, and most of the fish were shallow by necessity all year long. Bill Lowen wants to share with Bass University...

You want to learn how to select a crankbait for bass fishing? John Crews knows a lot about crankbaits from the Mann's 1-Minus, which runs just under the surface, to the Strike King 10XD which cranks down to 25ft+. There are thousands of shapes, colors, vibrations, actions, sounds, etc. to choose ...

John Crews joins The Bass University in Kokomo, Indiana to talk about super deep diving crankbaits. Super deep cranking (reaching 17ft+) is a relatively new technique, thanks to baits like the Strike King 10XD Crankbait, designed by Phil Marks, who won some serious cash with it on Sam Rayburn bac...

Bassmaster Classic bass fishing tournament champion Mark Davis joins The Bass University in Gadsden, Alabama to talk about deep water structure fishing. Some anglers get structure and cover confused. Structure is the bottom contour, the makeup of the bottom, which can best be represented with con...

High Speed Cranking Main Topics

0:50 Crankbait techniques
1:35 Why high gear ratio?
12:50 Line selection for cranking
14:40 Rod selection for cranking
16:40 Rod lengths
29:25 Hooks & split rings for high speed cranking
32:05 Crankbait customization

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Bass Open tournament angler Pete "The Dean" Gluszek is talks about fishing and catching fish with a finesse crankabit. You may be asking yourself, "What is a finesse crankbait?". Mr. Gluszek explains that a finesse crankbait differs from a regular crankbait in that it usually has a tighter wobble...

Bassmaster Elite Series bass fishing tournament angler John Crews is talking about crankbait fishing in a crowd. In this 53-minute instructional video, you will learn secrets from professional fisherman John Crews about:

Cranking Equipment - including Cashion Rods, reels, line, lures & hooks. ...

FLW bass fishing tournament pro Wesley Strader grew up on the Tennessee River, learning to be wood-wise (being aware of what different seasons and events in nature can tell you). In this 44-minute bass fishing instructional video, Strader will share a lifetime of tips, tactics, techniques and sec...

A successful FLW Tour angler, and (at the time of this writing) BASS rookie-of-the-year points leader Mark Daniels Jr. (MDJ) has 48 minutes of secrets for fishing heavy cover with finesse baits. Firstly, you may ask, "Why fish heavy cover with finesse baits and light line?". MDJ will talk about w...

Kevin VanDam shares well over an hour of crankbait fishing secrets! KVD is arguably the greatest tournament angler, and perhaps the best cranker in bass fishing history. Almost without argument, the greatest tournament bass fishing angler of all time, Kevin VanDam, owes a great deal of his tourna...

In this 49-minute bass fishing educational video seminar, Bassmaster Elite Series tournament angler and recent Bass Open champion Mike McClelland talks about catching fish in cold winter conditions. McCleland talks about the importanct of safety, warmth and overall preparedness for cold weather f...

Professional bass fishing tournament angler Pete Gluszek is often leading or nearly leading BASS Open tournaments where big smallmouth abound. Recently he was also in the lead of the Northern Open on the James River (so he's no stranger to catching big largemouth either). In this 57-minute semi...

Catching Winter Bass with KVD
Cold Water Fishing with Crankbaits and Jerkbaits
7-time BASS angler-of-the-year, 4-time Bassmaster Classic champion & 2001 FLW angler-of-the-year Kevin VanDam aka KVD has over $6m in career bass fishing tournament earnings. In this seminar, his first with The Bass Un...

It's autumn and Adrian Avena is here to tell you how to successfully catch bass while many other outdoor enthusiasts are headed into the woods for hunting season. In the fall, shad start to migrate from the main channels into the backs of creeks. It's a great time to target bass with hardbaits, l...