 The
Revival of Old Lures Continued
Randy Dearman
EDITOR’S NOTE: Bass wise-up to lures the more
frequently they see them. When anglers buy old lures
and fish them, they quickly discover that the old lures
are catching as many, if not more, bass than they did
when they were new. The reason is that these older lures
are ones that the bass haven’t seen before. Anglers
fishing these old lures have new confidence in the old
ones that win big-money tournaments. We talk this week
with  some
of the nation’s top pros to learn what old lures
they’re still using and why.
Randy Dearman of Onalaska, Texas, has fished professionally
for more than 20 years and has numerous top-10 wins
in Bassmaster events.
“If you look in all the professional bass anglers’
tackle boxes,  I
bet there aren’t three of them that have a Bomber
Mud Bug in them,” Dearman explains. “This
crankbait, which runs backwards and has the line tie
in the tail of the hook, looks and swims like a crawfish.
I like the 500 series and especially the shad-colored
lure with a pink stripe. You can fish it from 1-inch
to 10-feet deep. If you bend the tail of the lure down,
it’ll run so shallow that the nose of the bait
will be out of the water and barely tickle the grass.
This lure comes through all types of structure without
getting hung, and you can fish it over shallow grass
flats. If you bend the  tail
up, the lure will dive deep and you can fish it on rocky
banks, clay banks or anywhere you locate crawfish. You
seldom see this bait on the market anymore, but luckily,
I bought enough of them before they went off the market
to still have about 10 of them. “Another old lure
that I fish a lot on logs, timber and/or trees in the
water is the Strike King Spence Scout. This bait is
almost impossible to hang-up.”
Tomorrow: Shaw Grigsby
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