Some of the biggest bags in bass fishing have been caught on lipless crankbaits. From Texas, Florida and lakes like Kentucky Lake, a lipless crankbait has accounted for some of the biggest limits of bass during the prespawn.
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Greg Hackney gives a great rundown of why a lipless crankbait is one of the first baits he reaches for in the cold water prespawn period. He covers several aspects of it that will help you have more success with lipless crankbaits like a Red Eye Shad. First, he talks about switching up the sound. Next he explains changing his retrieve and using a pull technique. Then he talks deflection being important in cold water. He also covers searching for openings in grass with it and finding clean spots that can hold a school of big bass.
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.
