Bassmaster Elite Series pro Cliff "Cajun Baby" Crochet alters his Rat-L-Traps to make them snag-free when fishing around wood and rocks.
Alter lure for use around hard structure
Rat-L-Traps flat-out catch fish, but they’re not what one would call weedless. So fishing them around hard structure normally means risking loss of the lure.
But Bassmaster Elite Series pro Cliff “Cajun Baby” Crochet has a solution that makes the extremely effective lures snag-free when fishing around wood and rocks.
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