Elite Series champion Bryan New has competed throughout the southeast on lakes where bass – especially spots – feast on blueback herring. If you want to attract your quarry’s attention, get them to bite, and put them in the boat, you have to be crafty and pretty quick on the draw. Here’s a video where New offers up his starting points just about anytime he hits a lake full of bluebacks:
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