Lipless Crankbaits

[Luke Barnes]

I love the lipless for its versatility and I've never caught a fish on a billed crankbait. But I've caught plenty on the lipless. To each their own but for me I primarily stay lipless. 

[MickD]

On 9/26/2019 at 7:04 AM, A-Jay said:

Besides the traditional presentations with lippless baits, which for me include but are not limited to a constant retrieve, stop & go, letting it tick the top of or ripping it out of the grass, in late season applications, fishing a lippless bait like a blade bait has been super effective for me on brown bass. 

A-Jay

 

A-Jay, regarding your pic.  And previous ones of your rod locker.  You'd better stop robbing banks.  Sooner or later, you're going to get caught>  ?

1 minute ago, MickD said:

A-Jay, regarding your pic.  And previous ones of your rod locker.  You'd better stop robbing banks.  Sooner or later, you're going to get caught>  ?

A-Jay, are the red ones fairly effective?  I've never had much luck on them.  My most effective for SMB are the chrome/blue and chrome/shad, Strike King Red Eyes.

[A-Jay]

1 hour ago, MickD said:

A-Jay, regarding your pic.  And previous ones of your rod locker.  You'd better stop robbing banks.  Sooner or later, you're going to get caught>  ?

A-Jay, are the red ones fairly effective?  I've never had much luck on them.  My most effective for SMB are the chrome/blue and chrome/shad, Strike King Red Eyes.

The arsenal has grown steadily over the past 12 years or so.

Current inventory is sufficient and now it's just a matter of replacing lost or wounded ducks.

 As for red - not a top producer for me every where but there 2 specific waters I fish for brown bass, where red's the deal.  A little weird but I don't fight it. 

A-Jay

 

[Bankbeater]

I never fish with a deep diving crankbait anymore.  I always use either a Cordell Super Spot or a Rat-L-Trap, and just let it sink down to the bottom.  The bite usually comes after the bait has been sitting for a few seconds, and I start moving it. 

This year after the middle of April the lipless bite died off to nothing.  I'm hoping that it picks back up with the cooler weather coming.

[Todd2]

7 hours ago, Bankbeater said:

1just let it sink down to the bottom.  The bite usually comes after the bait has been sitting for a few seconds, and I start moving it. 

I try this and have some success but I get hung up a lot. Lipless baits in general seem to hang up quite a bit for me. Removing the back hook and keeping it moving seems to be my only way to stay snagfree. I did miss a good one today though so I'm second guessing the hook removal.

[Black Hawk Basser]

On 9/28/2019 at 11:59 AM, A-Jay said:

As for red - not a top producer for me every where but there 2 specific waters I fish for brown bass, where red's the deal.  A little weird but I don't fight it. 

I fish an old quarry in which the green bass really favor the red cranks.  I'm not going to argue either.  It's just a shame that it gets too much vegetation to fish one all year there.

[Choporoz]

On 9/29/2019 at 10:11 AM, Bankbeater said:

, and just let it sink down to the bottom.  The bite usually comes after the bait has been sitting for a few seconds, and I start moving it. 

 

17 hours ago, Todd2 said:

I try this and have some success but I get hung up a lot. Lipless baits in general seem to hang up quite a bit for me.

I fish some fairly deep, and very woody waters, but I love my lipless baits.  For years, I avoided lures over a 1/2 oz because I was afraid they'd get down in the wood and snag worse than lighter ones. 

 

It turns out that the heavier lipless are actually much better for me at depths over 10' even when forested. 

I feel I have a better sense of the depth I'm working; I have better sensitivity to snags at depth; and the pleasant surprise is that the heavier lures will act as their own plug knockers and fall out of a snag due to the weight of the lure -- at least much more so than 1/2 oz lures. 

[Todd2]

Has anybody seen much of difference between rattles vs the one knockers? Or silent for that matter.  I mostly have the rattles (BB's) but did pick up a couple knockers. (Knock N Trap).  

[scaleface]

2 minutes ago, Todd2 said:

Has anybody seen much of difference between rattles vs the one knockers? Or silent for that matter.  I mostly have the rattles (BB's) but did pick up a couple knockers. (Knock N Trap).  

I have a couple of the Two Taps Red Eye Shads and havent done much with them , yet . My most successful one is a silent RES  , chrome /blue back that has a loose weight inside so it rattles but   less noisy than a one knocker .