Large lipless lures

[RogerLaPointe]

I've used the Rattle trap in sizes up to and including the 3/4 oz size. My question is have you ever used the 1oz and the 1.5 oz.? If you have, under what conditions and with what success? thanks in advance

[Captain Phil]

I have used 1/4, 1/2 and 3/4 oz. Rattle Traps for bass.  I have had my best luck on the 1/2 oz size.   The 3/4 oz. rattle trap works where big shad are the primary bass forage.  I don't see why you couldn't catch bass on the larger lures, but I think they are mostly for salt water use.   A big snook or tarpon could easily eat one.   We don't have big Northerns or Muskies in Florida.  The problem I have experienced with Rattle Traps is losing fish.  Bass seem to throw them too easy.  I prefer spinnerbaits.

[RogerLaPointe]

Thanks for the input Phil, I agree with you 100%. I wanted to throw it out there and see what other people thought

[James Niggemeyer]

I use lipless crank baits up to 3/4oz with the 1/2 being my primary choice.  Experience with anything heavier than that is minimal at best and to be completely honest with you I don’t think I’ve ever caught one on anything heavier than a half three-quarter inch size. 

 

Sorry I can’t be much help in that regard, but I would think that people would use those mostly for striped bass and intercoastal saltwater species.   I know that some guys will use a 1 oz for Bass but I would think that would be in very specific situations like when the fish are holding deeper and tight to the bottom.

[Dwight Hottle]

I use the 3/4 oz over the 1/2 size most of the time. Caught my PB & another DD on it. I bought a few 1 & 1.5 oz baits to use down in Mexico at lake B but have not thrown them yet. I personally have not lost many fish on them but I do swap out the split rings & upgrade the hooks to owner wide bend or mustad triple grip. 

[Teal]

I still got a stock of the Lucky Craft LV 200 and they are 5/8.  They are my favorites.  I think they are 3".   Its a little compact for its weight.  I love em.    Like most above said I throw some 3/4 oz. But mostly 5/8 or 1/2.  The 200s seem to match the bait fish size pretty good in the late summer and  fall and I can stay deeper with them.

 

In spring time I like the smaller ones,... k

 

lipless cranks are a staple for me in the fall during.. I can cover water, and they larger ones mimic the larger shad that made it thru the year.  

 

Ollie's has been selling the Lucky Craft lv 200 and lv 500 dirt cheap.  

 

 

If u get the Lucky craft lvs, put new hooks and hard ware on them.  The ones I got from Japan were good to go.

[craww]

I use the LVR D15(?) alot on the river...Its 1oz & will juuuust about spool a curado on a hard overhand cast. I trim the downward pointing trebles to help avoid snags. It seems to draw more strikes on vanilla horizontal cast and retrieve than other methods. We have a small area that has walleye and they absolutely love em for some reason. 

[ww2farmer]

I prefer the LV200 and LV500 from Lucky Craft. The "heavy weight for size" of them gets me more bites. That LV500 is dang near magic in 7-10 feet of sub 50 degree water in the spring. I can't get fish holding in that depth range to come up far enough to smack a 1/2 oz bait which wants to ride too high over them, and If I slow it down enough for a 1/2 oz bait to reach them, in our clear water they won't bite it. I can still keep an LV500 clipping along pretty good in that clear water and keep it down. PS.....fishing slow in cold clear water is not always the best idea, you'd be surprised how many big largemouth will bite a quick moving bait in cold water IF IT'S CLEAR....dirty water....not so much.