Wintertime bass fishing can be some of the most rewarding if you can find fish reacting to subtle presentations in cold water. Louisiana angler Quentin Cappo, like many other professional anglers, developed a “limit getter” when money is on the line that he falls back to when the fishing gets tough.
For Cappo, that bait is the Strike King Swim’N Caffeine Shad. Even though the name and design implies it’s a finesse swimbait, Cappo believes it’s the perfect bait because he can make it be a slow swimbait or a weightless jerkbait in cold shallow water like he finds in the winter months in Louisiana and Texas.
For him, the Swim’N Caffeine shad is the perfect profile, weedless so he can fish it through literally everything he comes across and he can perfectly imitate a cold, stunned or dying shad. So he covers all the bases with a single profile.
While on a shoot in Louisiana this past winter, Cappo revealed his “bread winner” with us with some reluctance. Another one of those staple presentations that helps him catch more bass.
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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.
