As I stated earlier on this thread, I don't watch much television...Is Hank Parker or Bill Dance either one still around, if so are they still doing fishing shows?

This has been years ago, but I was with a buddy of mine one time that decided to use Bill Dances advice while using a buzz bait...he said he watched Bill do it and it seemed easy enough...what he did was reel his buzz bait in on a steady retrieve, pulling it in just slow enough to keep the blades turning and also making sure to bump it into a piece of standing timber on the way back. As soon as the bait bumped the timber he'd stopped retrieving and let the bait flutter down for a second or two before reeling it back in...by golly if he didn't hook into a 5lb largemouth using this method...the fish hit right at the timber as the bait was falling...