Tweaking Your Crankbaits

  1. All cranks should have  a snap ring on them and using a snap and not snap swivel..gives it a truer pull
  2. Tweaking your crankbaits to be more effective
    Jeff and Jason with a couple nice crankbait walleyes

    Jeff and Jason with a couple nice crankbait walleyes

  3. Use a pliers that has on lip on the tip to help make the small bends.  From there
  4. Bend the eye of the crankbait in small increments.  If you bend it too much, it will break over time.  Hang it over the side of the boat to test it and then bend the opposite direction it is pulling.
  5. Put a 1/8th oz split shot above the snap roughly five feet above the crank to keep floating grass and debris off of your crankbait.
  6. When trolling cranks using a super line, such as Power Pro or Fireline will typically outperform monofilament because it doesn’t stretch and it helps the crankbaits dive deeper.
  7. If using a line such as Fireline be sure to set your drag very loose, otherwise you will decrease your hook up percentage.
  8. Sharpen and check hooks often...
  9. Line counter is fairly important but not essential.  If you don’t have a line counter simply count the passes on a bait caster.  A good rule of thumb is 10 feet roughly for every pass on the spool.  If you use a spinning reel, let the line out in rod lengths to keep track of it that way.  When doing this just point and pull forward with the rod, much like a snap jigging motion. It is really a trial and error method, but can be effective when you don’t have the gear.

For running them deeper if you don’t have lead core

  1. Use an Inline weight or a snap weight
  2. 3 Way rig - must be particular when picking the Rapala.  You can’t use a deep diving crankbait or even Shad Rap.  Instead baits like a Husky Jerk or Countdown are more effective when using a 3 way rig.

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