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12-24-13, 11:17 AM | #1 |
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Ok Cranking update
Threw them till the end.
Well that and Float'n'Fly. Well it got cold and I threw towards the end mostly the crank shown above...I think. Switched up at times with a suspending hard jerk bait. But the cool deal with the Rap I was using, was it was a square-bill that swam 5-8' and when stopped it would turn, face fish and then suspend, When draged or pumped against the bottoms and stopped it would hover right at the bottom like a 1/2 in off bottom. Caught like a dozen but still.........not a 100 percent confident YET. Want to thank everyone for the great input but as always......I got a question. Now I know squares have a tighter wiggle. I know they are designed to dig the bottom. I know the small square lip is designed to kick tail up in laydowns. BUT Can't you fish them over open water? Better yet, DOES anyone fish them over open water? Especially shorebusting. The water may start deep but usually gets shallow/er closer to shore and end of retrieve. Like when I bring them through a deeper laydown or whole sunken tree. Before I hit the branches and after I clear the branches, I've gotten numerous bites. Basically open water BUT connected or close to structure. Other than the tighter wiggle and with the slow upward float or suspending ability shouldn't open water non structure laiden water be acceptable technique. If fished slow the wiggle drastically decreases too. Anyways I've really given them a go and will be using at the start of next season again. I really have been intriqued by this little endeaver. There is such a HUGE variety of cranks to. Hey, is a suspending hard body jerk/slash bait considered a crank bait?
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12-24-13, 02:10 PM | #2 |
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Joe I HATE SOFT PLASTICS ! ---->I LOVE CRANKBAITS , I enjoy crankbaiting, I like to cast and reel in all day long, I hate to stay and painstakingly walk a worm at arthritic snail pace for minutes at a time, cranking is a beautiful way to catch bass. Catch is choosing the right crank to do the job, so to answer your quation, yes you can use your cranks in open water, the question about open water is in relation on how "open" is "open" ? just because you don´t see it doesn´t mean there´s nothing underneath all that "openess"
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Joe, congrats on trying to tackle crankbaits. As much as I love topwater, flipping, and dragging jigs, crankbaits are probably my biggest strength for some reason. Just like everything else in fishing, there are no absolutes or hard and fast rules to crankbaits. But here are my thoughts and experiences with crankbaits.
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