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!"

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."

Ma Xiong reported catching Largemouth Bass using the Lipless Crankbaits technique and Shimano Expride B Casting Rods on Fox Lake (WI). Additional comments from this report: "Early motning fishing green vegetation and ripping the lipless through triggered the bites."

Phelptwan reported catching Largemouth Bass using the Lipless Crankbaits technique and Shimano Expride B Casting Rods on Kalamazoo Lake. Additional comments from this report: "Beautiful fall day to fish. Slightly overcast, with a slight wind out of the south east most of the day. Water clarity was garbage, which is about standard for the Kalamzoo river. Current was going pretty good as well making the slower presentations pretty hard to fish. First things first, all the fish we weighed were caught on a rat-l-trap ripping around the dock pilings and sea walls. Standard approach of cast it past, and rip/let fall, rip/let fall. A lot of hits near the boat as well. Managed to catch one keeper and one other on a Dark Sleeper dragging it down a rocky shore as well, and a couple dinks on a wacky. We managed first place (11.3lbs) and big bass (3.7lbs)."