The Slip Crank

pretty cool bait. nice job. 

Nicely done! I was thinking of doing the same, but it looks like you beat me to it haha!

Thanks!

Such a simple idea, I couldn't believe it hadn't been done before..... And when I google it, I come up

Edited February 9, 2017 by JRammit

Oh, and one of the biggest questions in the beginning was weather or not I could get a decent swimming crank bait without the mechanical freedom of a split ring or snap ring connected to the line tie.. Like a traditional crank bait

You can be the judge.. Here's a test swim of this bait in our pool.... Apologies, not the best camera work

 

The swim looks great!

Have you stuck any fish on it yet? When I was playing around with the idea myself I always wondered if the line-through mechanism would actually serve its function or not. I guess in my mind the water resistance on the lip would just push the bait back towards the fish, but I never tried it so I don't know for sure haha

Yes... I've caught a few 

It's give and take with the catch rate... Having one treble instead of two is obviously a handicap.... But on the other hand, once they're hooked, it's hard to lose em!

And yea, there's plenty of separation between the hook and lure during a fight... Since fish don't tend to swim in a strait line once a hook pokes em in the mouth, the water actually pulls the bait away from the fish when it changes direction

http://www.worldfishingnetwork.com/community/post/floatback-lures

1 hour ago, shlock said:

http://www.worldfishingnetwork.com/community/post/floatback-lures

 

Well I'll be damned!... Google let me down.... I must have searched every word and phrase EXCEPT "float back"

However, I did find a  patent on this concept, over 20 years old and expired.... So I'm not sure what aspect they hold a patent for??

Only issue I see with theirs is the breaking off... If you've ever seen a crankbait back away from a limb on a pause, you know it doesn't float strait up..... There's no telling where the bait will surface, you could still lose it, especially on a windy day..... I like how mine is free to float up the line, I know right where it's headed

But I do like the "through belly hook".. Genius!..... And it looks like they beat my by exactly 2 years

Did you visit the website listed for the company in the article?  Looks like a dead domain taken over by a link farm site. 

 

 

Yea, had trouble getting to it... So I went through Google... There was an ICast video from May 2013 featuring it..... I built my first prototypes in May 2015

Cool bait ,similar concept of the bill lewis pro trap but it's lipless ,you can also tune it by a rubber grommet that gently holds  the hook in the bottom of the bait. Down side the pro trap doesn't float but fish can't throw it, fish love em 

Thanks!.... Never seen the pro trap.. And I been fishin rattle traps since I was a kid