Peak summertime water temps have bass pro Jimmy Mason reaching for his favorite topwater lures, and especially on Tenessee River reservoirs with sprawling grass flats.
Jimmy divulges his top 3 topwater picks for covering water and triggering strikes from offshore bass roaming grass flats for shad and other baitfish. A popper is core to the lineup, but rather than the traditional pop and sit, Jimmy works the bait much more aggressively. This allows him to eliminate water more quickly, and he believes convert more strikes. Walking baits round out his lineup.
Color can be important, with shad mimicking patterns rounding out the core, and other adjustments made based on cloud and sun conditions, or wave action.
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Currently working as Senior Advisor to Wired2fish. Former COO and Publisher, Jason Sealock came to Wired2fish shortly after inception in January of 2010. Prior to that he was the Editor-in-Chief of FLW Outdoors Magazines. He worked up from Associate Editor to Photo Editor and finally Editor in Chief of three magazines FLW Bass, FLW Walleye and FLW Saltwater. He set the content direction for Wired2fish while also working directly with programmers, consultants and industry partners.
Sealock has been an avid angler for the better part of 40 years and has been writing and shooting fishing and outdoors content for more than 25 years. He is an expert with fishing electronics and technologies and an accomplished angler, photographer, writer and editor. He has taught a lot of people to find fish with their electronics and has been instrumental in teaching these technologies to the masses. He's also the industry authority on new fishing tackle and has personally reviewed more than 10,000 products in his tenure.
He has a 30-year background in information technologies and was a certified engineer for a time in Microsoft, Novell, Cisco, and HP.
He mostly fishes for bass and panfish around the house. He has, however, caught fish in 42 of the 50 states in the US as well as Costa Rica, Mexico, and Canada and hopes to soon add Finland, Japan, Africa and Australia to his list.
