CNC Molds N Stuff Posted January 26, 2011 Report Share Posted January 26, 2011 (edited) Ok, I am sure some of you have had a bass bust on a floating crankbait just sitting there. Well, use a floating crankbait as a topwater can be a good technique. Whether or not the ability to fish it back to the boat/bank as a crankbait afterwards is a benefit or not is still in question for me. I have a couple thoughts though. Why not design a crankbait for this application. Set the curve of the nose slightly above the waterline so it splashes a little more. Give it a more angled bill like a deeper diver so it backs up more on surfacing. Give it more of a minnow or pencil popper overall profile to match what bass are feeding on usually when hitting topwater. It would still need to be very bouyant to work for the application. I know. I know. There are crankbaits that work for crank popping now, but why not make it better. P.S. I have taken a guy fishing once or twice who didn't have any poppers and I only had one or two in the boat, and they didn't have any. I showed them crank popping and sometimes the technique outfished regular topwaters and usually produced equally well. Edited January 26, 2011 by Bob La Londe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobv Posted January 26, 2011 Report Share Posted January 26, 2011 Ok, I am sure some of you have had a bass bust on a floating crankbait just sitting there. Well, use a floating crankbait as a topwater can be a good technique. Whether or not the ability to fish it back to the boat/bank as a crankbait afterwards is a benefit or not is still in question for me. I have a couple thoughts though. Why not design a crankbait for this application. Set the curve of the nose slightly above the waterline so it splashes a little more. Give it a more angled bill like a deeper diver so it backs up more on surfacing. Give it more of a minnow or pencil popper overall profile to match what bass are feeding on usually when hitting topwater. It would still need to be very bouyant to work for the application. I know. I know. There are crankbaits that work for crank popping now, but why not make it better. P.S. I have taken a guy fishing once or twice who didn't have any poppers and I only had one or two in the boat, and they didn't have any. I showed them crank popping and sometimes the technique outfished regular topwaters and usually produced equally well. I discovered this in Canada a couple years ago. My buddy doesn't fish much and backlashes a lot. Several times one evening he caught some nice smallies while picking out a birds nest. I started letting my crank set for a minute or so and started catching some big ones. Funny thing was they wouldn't touch a popper or walking bait and the bait had to be dead still. Because of the way we found this technique I dubbed it Dumb sh-tting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanwood99 Posted January 30, 2011 Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 (edited) You can take a Mann's baby minus-1 and remove the front weights, and leave the back. Epoxy the hole. Great topwater bait. Edited January 30, 2011 by ryanwood99 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...