Autumn's Hot Crankbait Bite

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Back in the day, as a young boy growing up in western Tennessee, southern Louisiana and North Texas, I lived to bass fish.

But without the existence of the Internet, instructional DVDs, and the television programs that are on Outdoor Channel today, those were the dark ages in some ways when it came to a young lad accruing fishing knowledge and information.

So I lived each month for the mailbox arrival of the latest in monthly fishing and general purpose outdoors magazines, rags like "Fishing Facts," "Bassmaster," "Field &...