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HomeFishing TipsMaster Mat Punching for Bass with These Fishing Tips
Master Mat Punching for Bass with These Fishing Tips
Greg Hackney puts on a bass fishing clinic punching mats for bass. He talks about the effect of cold fronts on spring bass and how he modifies working the bait, his choice of bait, color, weights he likes, and how he approaches the mat for maximum efficiency. This is an amazing tutorial on how to target bass related to dense vegetation especially during a tough bite and make the most of the conditions to catch more bass.
He pitches on a Strike King Rodent most of the time, using the lightest weight he can get to penetrate the mat, in this case a 3/4-ounce Strike King Tactical Tungsten weight on 65-pound braid and a Lew’s 7-foot, 6-inch Heavy power Custom Plus Speed Stick which has the parabolic bend he looks for in a good punching rod. When he gets a bite in a good looking mat, he Power-Poles down and goes to work often catching multiple bass through the same spot in the mat as he demonstrates in this video.
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.
