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A buzzbait covers water quickly, agitates aggressive spawners and roamers and can get through a lot of gnarly stuff and come back clean

While there are numerous retrieve styles, if you can glide a bucktail near the bottom at a slow to moderate retrieve in the presence of stripers, you are likely to catch one

I like to let an underspin settle to the bottom before I begin my retrieve to maintain contact with the cover

A fluorocarbon leader lets you keep braids advantages (sensitivity, low stretch, casting distance) while improving stealth and durability at the business end where fish are actually looking at your line

Texas-rigged big worm A big Texas-rigged worm rounds out the three must-have baits for old-school night fishing