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| Anybody have any opinions on crankbaits and which ones to buy? Looking to boost my inventory of crankbaits, I have a rapala scatter rap and a bucher shallow raider, any other good ones you to get? |
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Location: Hayward, WI | I use Triple D's a lot. They are a deep runner compared to your other selections, but can be kept within probably 3-4 feet of the surface if you twitch with your rod tip up. I catch a good share of my fish on them. |
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| Grandmas or jakes, both great cranks. |
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Location: Wisconsin | I've had great luck this year twitching/ripping the Slammer 7" |
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Location: Iowa | Equip yourself with a few grandmas, depth raiders and triple Ds and you'll be ready...get a tenn shad, perch and black sucker in the grandma; perch, baitfish and turbo skunk in the depth raider; and Cisco, perch and sucker in the triple Ds. 9 crankbaits in all. |
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Location: Northern Indiana | Where are you looking to fish with these crankbaits? Over the top of weeds, the weededge, open water casting, or trolling? This will narrow down your choices in my opinion. For example, a Triple D is an awesome choice for cranking/twitching open water but I would not want it for fishing in shallow water over the tops of weeds. |
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Location: Tennessee | Smokin Bones Baits!!! We use them heavily and have been racking up upper 40-50s fish all year long on the Chad Shad and .22 Shorts |
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| X2 on the Smokin' Bones Baits !!
The Chad Shads and the .22 Shorts !! |
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Location: Mt. Zion, IL | Don't forget a shallow invader with the rear hook extended back for better hookups. As mentioned above Triple D, Depth Raider, Super Shad Rap, Lil Ernie, 5.5" SS Shad, 9" Grandma, and you can't go anywhere without some Baker Shads. One of my goto baits this year has also been a BDF7 fat free shad. I have 39 muskies so far this year, all but one of them on crankbaits, so you can tell i don't throw them often. |
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| headlocks and custom X |
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| It's hard to beat slammer tackles line up. He has everything from a 4" deep diver up to a 12" twitch bait. They are all solid plastic and made in the USA. |
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Location: Alsip, IL | Kraves and Kriscos have been reliable for me. They run great in current to if you fish rivers, or below dams and spillways. |
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Location: Waconia,MN | What works best for twitching over weed tips? Was looking at big game balsa twitch, anything else that works good shallow but can still troll in the 10-15" range? |
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Location: Canada | Baker's, Wiley's and Lawrence Muskie Lures put a lot of fish in the net for me. |
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Location: WI | I think 9" shallow raiders are the most under rated cranks to be released in a long while. Very versatile big fish baits. |
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| You are so lucky there is more stuff out there to catch fisherman than fish. Seriously though Tuff Shads, Wileys, Hammers, Bakers great baits. My old favorite an J-13 Rapala. If you are lucky to find them Warner Crankbaits. |
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Location: WI | Cody - 6/22/2014 7:39 AM
You are so lucky there is more stuff out there to catch fisherman than fish.
Lol. So true. Thing about crank baits is that guys buy a ton of them just in case " this is THE ONE"! |
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| Trophyseeker50 - 6/21/2014 11:27 PM
I think 9" shallow raiders are the most under rated cranks to be released in a long while. Very versatile big fish baits.
How do you compare/like the 9" Shallow Raider vs. the 10" Plastic Slammer. I would assume they both have similar action as they both have the square lips.
One thing that scares me off the Shallow Raider is reports of the paint just flaking off. Once they get that straight, I might pick a few up. |
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Location: WI | Action is somewhat similar. I think the slammer has a little more roll maybe because of more rounded shape of the body ? As for the paint jobs. I am the wrong person to ask as I own a business that repaints lure and have a tendency of repainting most of my own lures also. So mine have a few coats of etex on them. Although last fall I was using a shimmering shad and perch color 9"ers with stock paint jobs, and had no issues with paint. |
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| CU301DSV - 6/21/2014 12:15 PM
Baker's, Wiley's and Lawrence Muskie Lures put a lot of fish in the net for me.
do you think lawrence can make some with lexan lips?tks they look sweet |
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Location: Sycamore, IL | muskie tamer - 6/20/2014 10:00 PM
What works best for twitching over weed tips? Was looking at big game balsa twitch, anything else that works good shallow but can still troll in the 10-15" range?
A Believer will do this and more...a very versatile crankbait. |
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Location: Lake County Illinois | X2 on the Believers and Superbelievers and like Matt in the above post mentioned they are very versatile, |
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