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Lucky Craft LV-300 ~ Lipless CrankbaitPosted Jul-06-08 06:09:34 PDT Lucky Craft LV-300 ~ Lipless CrankbaitModel: LV-300 Most all lipless cranks vibrate rapidly when retrieved, but not all rattle. The LV-300 is one of the rare ones that doesn't rattle. The LV-300 is silent like Charlie Chan, the silent movie star of the thirties... but that's not bad. The LV-300 vibrates like the dickens when retrieved, but doesn't have any noise-making parts inside. The silent LV-300 has helped me catch buckets of 'extra' bass whenever I use lipless lures. It's so simple yet deadly. I first go down a bank and pull the initial receptive fish with a 'normal' high-chattering bait such as the noisy LV-500 or LVR D-7, etc. This initial noisiness 'wakes up' the bass so to speak. Once fish are exposed to fan-casting with high-chatterers, it can quickly become counterproductive to go back down the same bank again with the same high-chattering baits. The repeated noisiness (an attractant at first), can become a repellant that only serves to alienate fish by continuing to throw the very loud, harsh rattle baits. So what I do next is go down the same bank again with the silent LV-300, often helping myself to catch another few good fish with this non-rattling approach the second time. It's a similar profile, similar vibration without the high-chatter. A few more fish always seem to fall for it. The LV-300 can be the winning ticket when everyone and their uncle (or even your own self) has been bombarding the bass with noisy rattling baits. Best of all, almost no one else uses them. The LV-300 is a virtually unknown and unused Lucky Craft bait. So if you're looking for a secret lure that really does produce (especially when fish have been shown too many of the noisier models), there you have it. The LV-300 is a non-rattling lipless bait that performs well where you or other anglers have already peppered the bass with noisier lipless baits. Another tactic I like with the LV-300, when bass are suspended or simply schooling over structure (points, channels, ledges, etc.), I'll tend to position the boat over a high spot or over the shallowest spot, and cast toward deeper, open water. Then simply let the LV-300 pendulum fall in an arc toward me. The LV-300 is forward-weighted to run head down when retrieved, and this also helps it fall head down while sinking. It won't spin as it falls, and has a little more realistic and natural falling action than some other lipless cranks. It swaggers a little side to side as it falls forward toward you, head first. It tends to attract strikes (and can be worked with angler-imparted action) as it swaggers or glides side to side on the fall. You need to practice with it, and see what it does on different line sizes, with different slack or loose line pressure, discovering how best to make it pendulum head-first in a hunting, zigzag manner as it sinks, moving forward. With suspended bass, the key is how far to let the LV-300 sink at first. When I let it get down to where I think the fish are, I'll give it one flip. This is an attention-getter. It signals something is not quite right. It's just like a shad in trouble that flips up on its side, making an attempt to right itself. I then let it fall again and give it two flips. Then let it pendulum fall in toward me again. All the while it is coming back to me in a pendulum arc, and give it three more flips. Just pop it quick, to give it a short, erratic, struggling movement. It moves at most one foot when you flip it. It's just an attention-getter that shows bass something is not right. I basically let the LV-300 swing back in to me, through the fish, above any cover, over any structure, and pop it once, twice or three times. On its way back in, as the bottom becomes shallower (remember to have the boat directly atop the high spot), it's advantageous if the crankbait bumps into brush or anything else as it arcs down closer to the bottom. That obstacle impact is a great strike trigger, and because it's falling nose first, its posture helps protect the hooks from snags. This may not seem like it would matter much, but the nose-down posture truly affords a lot of hook protection from snags. More often than not, the LV-300 will get nipped as it bounces off anything in its path. Once it reaches bottom, lift it up and let it swagger and sway on its way back down as you reel it in the rest of the way back to the boat. Lucky Craft Crankbait Color ConsiderationsLucky Craft is legendary for it's artful, natural baitfish colors. You won't see a lot of red throat splashes, red eyes or other gaudy lipstick. They're not known for their bright chartreuse-based, fire tiger or other bold color patterns. Where Lucky Craft lures excel, what they do better than other vendors, are complex yet natural finishes. Along those lines, the four most popular colors across most every Lucky Craft product model are:
MS Herring (color #254) is another of the most beautiful of all Lucky Craft colors. It is similar to MS American Shad in that they are both high flash colors. However, MS Herring does not come in every crankbait model. It is not available in the LV-200, LV-300 or LV-500. It is available in the LVR D-7 and LVR D-10. Mad Craw (color #286) and Spring Craw (color #070) are quite popular colors for lipped crankbaits and lipless too.
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