Best Lipless Crankbait Rod

Dick Majewski reported catching Largemouth Bass using the Lipless Crankbaits technique and St. Croix Legend Tournament Bass Casting Rods on Lake Winnebago. Additional comments from this report: "I fished the Red Eyed Shad erratically over shallow humps. I had to compete with a vast amount of bait throughout the area."

Bob Downey reported catching Largemouth Bass using the Lipless Crankbaits technique and St. Croix Legend Tournament Bass Casting Rods on St. Johns River. Additional comments from this report: "I was fishing pre spawn fish around vegetation. I used a lipless crankbait with a yo-yo style retrieve to trigger bites. I had to switch to a faster action rod because the fish would eat the bait on the fall. I found both gold patterns in the Storm Arashi Vibe to be key in getting larger fish to bite. "

Kent Mittelstaedt reported catching Largemouth Bass using the Lipless Crankbaits technique and St. Croix Legend Tournament Bass Casting Rods on Lake Harris. Additional comments from this report: "Fast retrieve over the tops of eel grass and hydrilla got some good bites!"

Rich Lindgren reported catching Largemouth Bass using the Lipless Crankbaits technique and Dobyns Rods Champion XP Crankbait Rods on Marion Lake. Additional comments from this report: "Keyed on green grass clumps in 6-10' of water, slowly crawling and lifting lipless crank through grass to catch largies and pike"

Jason Glerum reported catching Drum using the Lipless Crankbaits technique and Dobyns Rods Champion XP Crankbait Rods on Muskegon Lake. Additional comments from this report: "About 20’ deep, yo-yo-ing up and down. "

Phelptwan reported catching Largemouth Bass using the Lipless Crankbaits technique and Dobyns Rods Champion XP Crankbait Rods on Sugarloaf Lake . Additional comments from this report: "Water temp around 75, lots of fish busting on surface but couldn't get on a top water bite. Tried a ploppers, poppers, walking baits, and frogs, just didn't seem interested. Switched to some lipless cranks and started catching them right off the edges of the lily pads and drop offs. Pretty much cranking them in as fast as we could turn the handles. Did a bit of sight fishing in the shallows and caught them with a wacky worm, but the bait of the day was definitely the red eye."

Bernicky Fishing reported catching Largemouth Bass using the Lipless Crankbaits technique and St. Croix Victory Casting Rods on Guntersville Lake. Additional comments from this report: "Fish were really moving, fished around grass edges and rip rap banks. "

Nathan M Gravert reported catching Largemouth Bass using the Lipless Crankbaits technique and St. Croix Victory Casting Rods on Guntersville Lake. Additional comments from this report: "The bite was slow, but if you continued to work grass you could find fish biting. We focused on main lake grass close to major creeks. I used a heavy action rod to with moderate-fast taper to be able to rip the grass free of the bait and provoke strikes. Getting the bait into the grass and ripping it out were key to getting most of the bites. Of course, a good red crankbait is what we used the most, but chartreuse was also productive. "

BassontheBrain reported catching Smallmouth Bass using the Lipless Crankbaits technique and St. Croix Victory Casting Rods on Mooselookmeguntic Lake. Additional comments from this report: "Sometimes I feel like the lipless is thrown just infrequently enough that the fish haven't learned to avoid it yet. Bottom contact baits weren't doing it, switched to the lipless and kept it mid to high in the water column just reeling and twitching."