The primary purpose for flipping and pitching with heavy weights (3/4 – 1-1/2 ounce) is to penetrate the cover so you can get your bait to where the bass live. Expert shallow water bass pro, Greg Hackney, understands that fishing with heavy weights isn’t easy when you’re getting started. Thankfully, he provides some sound guidance that’ll rapidly build confidence and put bass in the boat when going heavy is a requirement.
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These four tips walk you through what to do starting with the initial fall of the bait through cover and subsequently how to fish the bait on the bottom and throughout the water column, both areas that Hackney witnesses several beginner’s mistakes. The light switch will go off in no time when you apply these fundamentals with ample practice.
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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.
