 what's going on guys welcome to another video today i'm going to be talking about square bill crankbaits he's talking about tackle Tuesdays how i used to make them how they enjoyed them you know they got a lot of tips in the videos and i'm going to start picking a bait you know around every Tuesday it might not be like this type of series where you know i think crankbaits this week next week i'm going to pick jerkbaits the next week i'm going to pick deep diving crankbaits it might be a little bit different as in rearranging my boat you know cleaning the boat up showing you where my tackle is different type of boat to where it might be something different but every Tuesday i'm going to try to keep something tackle oriented so um but this week's tackle Tuesday is going to be over square bill crankbaits let's go ahead and hop into the video as you guys can tell in this box i've got a ton of different styles of square bill crankbaits tons of different colors and there's reasons why i have all that you know you have some like a 1.5 kvd and then you go to like a 5o or an 8o and there's reasons why you had those you know some of them go different depths some of them have a tighter wobble some of them have a wider wobble um the whole color reasons i'm going to go ahead and start off that with the first thing is you know i have a lot of these red style crawfish colored square bills in here and the red ones i really love to use in dirty water that's just you know my favorite bait to pick up say the water is very stained very muddy always going to pick up like a red crankbait um like say i go out to the savannah river water is very stained red's always my favorite color for stained water um that's one of my favorite things if i'm going into like a shad color it's going to be because the water's moderately clear pretty clear um for a good example lake linear is very very clear i'd always use a shad color on linear i would never just randomly pick up a red color crankbait but then again on heart will you have you know clear water but it's semi stained and i've actually caught them good on a red crankbait there so it all depends on the timing here as well you know if you're looking towards the fall or the fish are chewing on a lot of bait you're most likely going to be using a natural colored shad bait anyways um as your presentation moving on to different styles of square bills as in you know big bigger small square bills it all depends on how deep of water you're fishing so when i throw a square bill i tend to throw it in around i'd say two to six foot of water i wouldn't really go much over that um or under that you know you if you if you're fishing in like a half a foot of water you're gonna get a lot of stuff on the bait um if you're fishing it deeper than you know six seven eight foot i mean you're probably not even going to be hidden the bottom anyways one rule that i really like with the square bill yes you can free throw it have it going through the water but when i throw a square bill and when i throw a crankbait in general i'm really wanting to hit structure so say i pull up on a spot has a lot of rip rap has a lot of rock every time i throw that i'm going to want that thing to be digging down in that rock that's very important and i swear it keys you off to so many more bites so you're just throwing it so you're paralleling a bank and you're throwing down the edge of it and you're not good landing directly on the bank where you're just a few foot off and you're actually landing a few foot off of that bank and not perfectly parallel with it i mean i've seen in days like that where you won't even get a bite so very important that you throw this bait in areas where it's actually going to be hitting structure what's really good about a square ball as well as when you move to trees and brush piles can actually run this thing right next and right in the brush pile so you know you can slightly bump it say i'm reeling it and i fill a tree you know just slightly creep it creep it over they're kind of like stop and really pop the rod it'll go through it fine so the rod and roll combo also line i'm gonna start off with the line if i'm going to be fishing this thing around a lot of structure around a lot of trees um rock i am going to want a little bit more thicker line so say i get some something stuck in the tree or if i'm fishing around submerged grass as well i'm gonna want a little bit more thicker line i would tend to stick around 15 to 17 pound line i'm not a big fan of jumping over 17 to 20 pound at that point it gets really thick depending on the brand line you use um but i actually use seaguar fluorocarbon um that's all i use the enviz ex which is like the yellow label that they make phenomenal um but on a square ball if i'm fishing a lot of structure 15 to 17 pound if i'm just regularly throwing a square ball on a normal day i would prefer like 12 pound line 10 to 12 um but to be on the safe safe side 12 pounds perfect for a square ball crankbait moving on to the reel is a seven three to three gear ratio reel people talk about five to one gear ratio reels eight one to one gear ratio reels i usually just keep it moderate you know seven three to one gear ratio reel or seven three to three gear ratio reel um it's perfectly fine it's all in how you get used to the reel you know you can move it fast if you want to you can move it slow if you want to it's all in how you're controlling the bait so it usually sticks in the moderate style of reel to move it on to the rod this is actually a medium heavy i also throw this on like a medium medium rod if i want a little bit more tip if i wanted a little bit more light like kind of like a jerk bait rod but preferably just my personal preference is like this is a martin apc um this is a kuma tcs tournament concept series rod and this is a seven foot medium heavy that's just me personally that's what i like that's what i'm comfortable with and i feel like it has just enough backbone and just enough tip for me to get the bait out there work it through structure and actually puncture the fish with the hook that's going to be it for this video guys if you guys enjoyed this tuesday's tackled tuesday be sure to smash the like button if you guys want to see more of these be sure to let me know below i want to see every single one of you guys comment something below and what type of bait you want me to talk over next and also just talk about you know what type of tackle to do is you want to see and if you actually enjoy the series that's going to be coming up also be sure to smash that thumbs up button and subscribe if you haven't already and be sure to hit the little bell so since you post notifications overall thank you guys so much for the support hope you learned a lot about square wheel today i'll catch you guys in the next