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We had too many wonderful telling photos from our Zoom / WEC visit to put in our original article, so we wanted to add a few more for you guys so you can feel like you were there with us. Trust us, we were thinking of you guys and how many of our die-hard crankbaiters would be in hog heaven walking around with us.
This photo essay is for you guys that love to crank.
These WEC E-1s are smoothed and ready for inserts
Terry was like a kid in a candy store talking shop with Ed Chambers
These baits are primed and ready for paint
Chambers shows Chris Baxter the action on his latest crank
Ed shows off his personal tackle room and shares stories about tournaments
Chambers finishes up a batch of cranks in his paint booth
Chambers engraves his initials
The Tinkerer’s Toy – Chambers actual childhood toy is a perfect depiction of one of fishing tackle’s most creative tinkerers
These baits are painted and clear coated and ready for hooks and packaging.
Anyone else want one of every color?
The WEC crankbait is a work of art that is a proven fish catcher.
EDITORS UPDATE: The world lost one of the great innovators when Ed Chambers passed away in 2018. We will sorely miss his contributions and friendship.
Currently working as Senior Advisor to Wired2fish. Former COO and Publisher, Jason Sealock came to Wired2fish shortly after inception in January of 2010. Prior to that he was the Editor-in-Chief of FLW Outdoors Magazines. He worked up from Associate Editor to Photo Editor and finally Editor in Chief of three magazines FLW Bass, FLW Walleye and FLW Saltwater. He set the content direction for Wired2fish while also working directly with programmers, consultants and industry partners.
Sealock has been an avid angler for the better part of 40 years and has been writing and shooting fishing and outdoors content for more than 25 years. He is an expert with fishing electronics and technologies and an accomplished angler, photographer, writer and editor. He has taught a lot of people to find fish with their electronics and has been instrumental in teaching these technologies to the masses. He's also the industry authority on new fishing tackle and has personally reviewed more than 10,000 products in his tenure.
He has a 30-year background in information technologies and was a certified engineer for a time in Microsoft, Novell, Cisco, and HP.
He mostly fishes for bass and panfish around the house. He has, however, caught fish in 42 of the 50 states in the US as well as Costa Rica, Mexico, and Canada and hopes to soon add Finland, Japan, Africa and Australia to his list.
