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    Herren’s Spinning Class

    Mar 01, 2019 5 minutes
     By STEVE PRICE - SENIOR WRITER

    IT’S A WARM, perfect-for-fishing day on Alabama’s Lay Lake, where the shoreline brush and laydowns between Elkahatchee and Coley creeks almost certainly hold some bass, but right now, Bassmaster Elite Series pro Matt Herren isn’t fishing for them. The trolling motor is down, but Herren doesn’t have a rod in his hand.

    What he is holding is a pair of pliers and a box of spinnerbait blades. Even though he has spent three decades fishing Lay Lake, Herren has noticed today’s conditions and he is literally building a spinnerbait to match those conditions. Many years ago, one of Alabama’s greatest spinnerbait anglers, the late Paul Chapple (a Tournament Trail competitor who fished in the 1980 Bassmaster Classic) taught Herren

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