T'is the season! For crankbaits that is...

I remember discovering the Zoom Fluke, and I guess I just stumbled on it at
the right time, like you with the crankbaits. When I started fishing the
Flukes, I wondered why this wasn't the only bait in my tacklebox! I was
catching alot of fish with them, and once though that they should be
outlawed!!! Then, just as quick as it started (actually about a month
later), when the weather warmed up and sent the bass into hiding... I was at
a loss. I couldn't buy a bite with a Fluke, so I resorted back to the other
items in the box.

Yes, crankbaits are good, and the crankbait season is upon us, and while you
can catch fish most of the year with them, don't trick yourself into
thinking they are always the best bait in your boat. But, don't think that
after you stop catching them on a crankbait, that the bite is over. Continue
using them as one of the great search tools, and be ready to follow up with
a slower bait when you aren't hooking up.

That was my lesson learned anyway...

"CR" wrote in message
om...
I've never been a big believer in crankbaits until yesterday. For
whatever reason I've never had any luck with them. Probably because I
used to fish in florida where it's too weedy. Anyway yesterday I was
fishing a rocky creek in north alabama. I was wade fishing under a
bridge, the water was 3-4 foot deep. Just for the hell of it I decided
I was going to try an experiment. I tried using different baits each
time I waded across the stream, under the bridge. I was casting
upstream on all my casts. I tried using a live creek minnow, a slider,
an inline spinner, a spinnerbait, a shad rap, and a rebel crawdad.
Here are my totals:

Live creek minnow - 0
Slider - 1
Inline spinner - 0
Spinnerbait - 0
Shad rap - around 7
Rebel Crawdad - around 10

As you can see the crankbaits were WAY better. I'm a believer now!

Can anyone suggest some other tiny, shallow running crankbaits?

Chuck.