My favorite bite of the season only allows a short window, but the fishing is so good, little else matters! Water below 40. Jig bite faded away. Now is the time to break out the modified cranks and punish the largemouth bass. Carefully attaching suspenstrips and suspendots along with upgrading the hooks allows you to catch more fish. Before any of the catching can begin, you need to put the time in graphing your lake and finding where the fish are bunching up before ice up. On a 600 acre lake, we've found hundreds of bass bunched in a 100 yard stretch of shore. You can scan for hours and not see a mark on side imaging, but keep going and force yourself to continue the search. If there are no fish where you cast then it's impossible to catch no matter how good your presentation is. Find the fish, then unleash your custom cranks at them. I'm partial to a Rapala DT14 in perch color, upgraded with Owner Stinger or Mustad Triple Grips. A Megabass Deep X 200 LBO in GLX Gill color will also punish the fish. Perfect balance to keep your deep crank in the fishes face is the final piece to the puzzle. You want it to sit perfectly still, using 5 to 10 second pauses to let the fish come up to the bait, look at it, then have time to bite it. Watch your line, as it lays slack on the surface, many times you'll see it pop as a fish inhales your crankbait.