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Location: upper michigan | just out of curiosity i would like to know what your favorite cranks are. I have so many that i like and use regularly. i have a love hate relationship with reef runner cranks. Shade raps have counted for many walleye. the mighty hot -n- tot is another great crank and so many others are so good i would have to say my favorite is the storm baby thunder stick. i really curious to see the feedback on this. |
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Location: Rhinelander | Shad Raps and Hot N Tots have been pretty good to me. I need to try the new Kaboom lures, looks like. I also like the Cisco Kid cranks for casting, did real well in Canada on those this year. |
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Location: Waukesha Wisconsin | Steve beat me to it!
KABOOMS of course. Great colors, great action and great people to work with. |
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Location: McFarland, WI | In addition to the above-Husky Jerks both deep diving and shallow and the similar Smithwicks and for smaller eyes-the Ripshads.
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Location: upper michigan | i have only tried the kaboom lures for a very short period of time the one place that i fished that they may have worked well the fish where on a blade bite but they look good and i love the colors hopefully this year i will get to pull them a bit more always love to have an extra wepon or 2 in my box |
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| Whatever crank I run, I come back to the Husky Jerks (both deep and original). They just produce big 'eyes for me. Those new glass patterns work, man. |
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Location: Chicago IL. | 2 hot cranks this year on the river has been the jointed shad rap and glass shad raps.
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Location: Westland, Mich. | hot n tots and deep little rippers for open water. original raps for handlining. i bought a few ripsticks over the weekend, i'm going to give them a workout on the suspended fish in the spring. |
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Location: Westland, Mich. | hot n tots and deep little rippers for open water. original raps for handlining. i bought a few ripsticks over the weekend, i'm going to give them a workout on the suspended fish in the spring. |
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Location: Westland, Mich. | hot n tots and deep little rippers for open water. original raps for handlining. i bought a few ripsticks over the weekend, i'm going to give them a workout on the suspended fish in the spring. |
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Location: Kaukauna WI | I use alot of Ripshad, Nitro Shinners and Winning streaks I feel you need to look and change colors in course of day. only this way can you work and develope a history and pattern for events you are working in. When I learn this last year I was better off in a big picture of angling. |
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Location: Milw, WI | Huskyjerks, then (old) thundersticks.
Deep and shallows in both.
Edited by Richfish 12/13/2004 2:17 PM
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| Most of my trolling is of the open water variety. Had a lot of trouble dialing in a specific lure pattern in 2004. Color seemed more important. If I had to pick, best producers for big fish seemed to be the stand-by #7 Shadrap and Winning Streaks up high (specific colors withheld!?!) Numbers bait was the Storm original DJ in the mid-depth or deeper range.
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| Dave's Kaboom baits have been working awesome! Both the Winning Steaks and Shiners are great baits! New for this year are the shallow shiner! Can't wait. I also love to pull Shad Raps. MATZUO prism shads work well also!  |
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| Dave's Kaboom baits have been working awesome! Both the Winning Steaks and Shiners are great baits! New for this year are the shallow shiner! Can't wait. I also love to pull Shad Raps. MATZUO prism shads work well also! |
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| Can't log for some reason. Anyhoo, my overall fav (90% Erie fishing) is probably the Reef Runner. The deep version #1, DLR #2, Ripstick #3, and the Ripshad #4 (Ripshad has caught some suprisingly large fish for a small bait). All are good in different situations. I probably caught more big fish per time spent pulling them on the new Glass Husky Jerks and DHJs.
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Location: Combined Locks, WI | I have a new favorite after this past season and that is the Dave's Deep KA-BOOM Shinner. All of Dave's Baits are well crafted and priced well and best of all, everyone of Dave's baits are made in the USA. The new Shallow KA-BOOM Shinner should be an awsome bait on Poygan in 2005. Watch store shelves and get them when they are released because they may go fast.
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| I've liked a number of different crank baits thru the years, but for the last several years, (since I've been guiding) I've liked the one behind the board that just disappeared!! 
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Location: upper michigan | ya that is always a good one isnt it
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favorite crank bait