FLW Tour pro Todd Castledine has simplified his fishing by sticking with staples like a jig and other lures that cover water over the years so that he spends more time figuring out the patterns of the fish and their locations than what bait he should be throwing. He has found some staple bass lures that he sticks with that can do a lot of different things in a lot of different fishing scenarios that plays into his “fish fast and cover a lot of water” theory on bass fishing practice time.
He has become fond of the Strike King Structure Jig with a Rage Bug that he modifies to make it able to fish a lot of different ways. He can swim it, pitch it, skip it, flip it, punch it, cast it, drag it and more. This keeps him from having to switch lures all day, and he can run and gun shallow and deep on cover and open water alike and know that if he’s not getting bites, it’s not because of the lure selection.
I enjoyed working with Castledine and listening to his “brain dump” on how the system has helped him simplify his fishing and enable him to fish faster. He will be one to watch on the FLW Tour in 2018. We talked in-depth about fishing fast, and keeping his lure choices really simple is a key component to that. We’ll get into the breaking down water fast soon. He really shared a lot of good information on how he has been so successful finding fish and covering water in his practice time.
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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. Now he sets 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.