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| I have a question I hope some of you could answer. I just read the last issue of musky hunter mag and it had an artical about tuning a bait to walk. Tthey say to slightly turn the eye screw so the bait is out of tune and then turn a screw the hook is hanging on the opposite way to bring the bait back it tune. They say this will help it WALK. So my question is which hook screw will give you the most respone in helpng bring the bait back in tune and make it walk? |
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Location: Green Bay, WI | Although I am not sure he talks about walk-the-dog lures, most of what you'd like to know is covered in this book:
http://www.booktrail.com/Fishing_General/JoeBucher.asp
I've read it several times, and it's well worth the $20. There's a nice section on construction and tuning of crankbaits.
As to your question, I haven't read the article. However if you've de-tuned a lure at the front eye, then it only seems to make sense that tweaking the hook eye *farthest* from the front eye will give you the most correction. It's a torque thing: Torque = Force X Lever Arm.
So if you are applying a restorative force at one of the hook eyes, then the force applied at the farthest distant from the displacing force, should result in the most restorative torque, and have the greatest effect for the same degree of displacement. Or put another way; you'll have to tweak that eye farthest away the least, for a given degree of correction.
TB
Edited by tcbetka 5/21/2010 12:37 PM
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Location: Oconto Falls, WI | No need to “tweak” a crank to walk. Most cranks will do this out of the package. Some are easier than others of course. It’s all in the matter of how you retrieve them. Retrieve them the same way as you do a WTD topwater and you will get similar results under the water with a crank. |
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Location: Freedom, WI | I would add do not turn the sreweye it could crack the clear coat on some lures or break it loose if it has been glued or worse break it off.. Bend it instead, for large sceweyes I like a flat nose pliers and small eyes or wire a needle nose works fine. It does not take much usually. A lot of crankbaits need tuning from new especially wood (each piece of wood is different) along with plastic. |
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