Jason Lambert can always be found fishing offshore. Yet, even this seemed odd for him.

Here it was, last week of October, and almost the entire field of the FLW Tour Invitational on Norris Lake is doing what you’d expect – burning up shallow flats and bars with topwaters. Afterall, the time of year and conditions couldn’t have been better for topwaters.

Only, Lambert didn’t seem to get the memo. Instead, he was bombing a deep-diving crankbait to some unseen structure up the river, and catching fish after fish. If not for the reds and yellows of the foliage in the background, it easily could’ve looked like a scene from early summer on a Tennessee River lake.

He ended up finishing second to James Watson by a mere 3 ounces, and many chalked it up as a fluky occurrence on a relatively unknown body of water. Then he replicated it two weeks later...

https://www.flwfishing.com/tips/2017-11-21-cranking-in-the-deep-and-cold