Bassdozer's
Lipless Crankbaits
Weight: 1/2 oz.
Body Length: 3"
Type: Lipless, Rattling, Countdown, Sinking
One of the very best things going for a lipless crankbait is
it's body shape. There's hardly any other bass bait that had such
a perfectly natural profile. The lipless crankbait has a great
shad or sunfish-imitating body shape and powerful vibrating
swimming movement that imitates the tight body movements of both
these baitfish types. The body shape also allows it to be
mistaken for a scooting crayfish by bass.
Bassdozer's Lipless Crankbait has
a great swimming action when retrieved at any speed from slow to
medium to fast. These lipless crankbaits are made in America.
When paused, it sinks perfectly horizontal. It does not
nose-dive or spin or foul the line with the hooks when it sinks.
This is a common fault with other lipless crankbait brands - to
spin when they sink and foul your line - but this lipless
crankbait does not have that fault.
Another problem with many other lipless crankbait brands is
the hooks can catch on or "marry" each other during a
cast, and that causes many wasted casts during the course of the
day. But this lipless crankbait does not have that fault. The
hooks are spaced apart so they cannot catch on each other during
a cast.
Even when yoyo-ed up and down, the hooks are not able to marry
each other and rarely wrap around the line when yoyo-ed. The
front hook is not able to grab over the bait's nose. These are
common faults with other lipless crankbait brands - but this
crankbait does not have these faults.
Yet another problem with many other crankbait brands when
paused, they fall nose-first and spin in a tail dive, wrecking
any illusion of natural action. This crankbait does not have that
fault. It maintains a natural horizontal body position on the
fall. It maintains its natural look and posture whenever paused,
when allowed to deadfall momentarily (a great strike trigger) or
it can be counted down to a specific depth, or simply allowed to
freefall down the sheer face of a shoreline bluff or underwater
ledge in deep water. Just give it a pop or two or three with the
rod tip every so often, which is a great strike trigger to shake
and rattle it as it falls. It can be cast out, the reel engaged,
and then allowed to pendulum fall while popping it one, two or
three times as it pendulum swings back to you on a semi-tight
line fall. Once it reaches bottom, yoyo it up and down as you
reel it in the rest of the way back to the boat.
The internal chambers of this lipless rattling crankbait
contain many ball bearings that rattle noisily on the retrieve
and the sound resonates in the chambers. The internal chambers
also shift the rattles to the rear of the bait during the cast to
make for smooth, long and accurate casts.
The rattling noise made is moderate - not too loud yet not too
soft. Many persons wonder why rattling lipless crankbaits work
since they are so noisy? People feel the loud rattling noise is
unnatural - but that isn't true. Most anglers do not know that
the noise made by this lipless rattling crankbait is quite close
to the noise made by shad, herring, sawbelly, blueback or alewife
schools swimming tightly together. Few anglers have ever heard
the very loud wriggling, writhing noise made by a school of such
baitfish, but it is true. I have heard the noise made by tightly
swimming schools of shad (herring, alewives, etc.) many times,
and the chatter of this lipless crankbait is remarkably similar
to the noise made by such schools. The noisy rattling made by
this lipless crankbait is a natural dinner bell for bass!
The factory-installed hooks by default on this and many other
brands of lipless crankbaits are often a #4 on the belly and a #6
on the tail. Whenever possible, we request that the factory
installs two #4 trebles on Bassdozer's Lipless Crankbaits, but
they don't always do that. Who knows why manufacturers tend to
put the smallish #6 on the tail? You can replace it with a #4
tail treble on the tail without upsetting or altering the great
wiggle and fish-catching action. You'll simply hook and hold more
fish with a #4 on the tail. And where bass routinely run large,
you can even upsize the belly hook with a #2 treble for more
hook-holding strength.
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