September Tip - Crank Baits

[bamablacksmith]

If your like me you have a few crank baits. Ok more than a few...

I try to keep them divided into seperate boxes, Topwater, Shallow (1 to 6 ft), Mid (7 to 12 ft) and Deep ( >12 ft). This works great except the various baits may have slightly different depth ranges, or when you have crank baits that have been modified and are tuned for specific depths.

I like to take a red Ultra-Sharpie and write the depth range on the belly of the bait. If the depth is specific to a line size I write that also. The red Sharpie writing cant be seen below about 4 ft and it seems to last almost forever.

This saves a lot of time on the water since I dont have to sit there scratching my head trying to remember the depth range or try and figure it out from the lip.

[Ranger_man]

good tip that was in one of the bassmaster magazines

[ss454]

Why not write it down both sides since the red color will only make it look like a bleeding bait? Fish can't read so it's not like they'll know it's writing and not blood...

[fishergal]

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Darn, I was going to say that!!! I use a red sharpie on lots of stuff.

[stranz3529]

HMMMM.....nice thought, I had been writting it in Sharpies in the spot I had the bait in inside the box.....

[Luke]

i take and put the depth on mine but i go one step further and also put the color pattern on the bottom of the bait as well
like mos i am a crankbait freak and have tons of them and some of the color patterns get hard to rembember what they are after they have been in the box for a while

[Bill2e]

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Darn, I was going to say that!!! I use a red sharpie on lots of stuff.</TD></TR></TABLE>


Me too, there are many a GOLF Ball in the woods, with a Red Sharpie line on it as a mark.

Then I pretty much gave up golf and got back into fishing, thought I would save money