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!"

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)."

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."