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Who has had a good start this year throwing cranks? I've caught the majority of my fish this year on them. Lets post up those crank fish pics, here are a few of mine

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I forgot this one, first time throwing the KVD 2.5

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I'm not a picture taker, never have been, never will be. I've only had roughly half the number of fish on cranks this year as I would in a normal year. We've had a really off spring so far. Point of reference: three days ago it was a high in the 50s. Today was 105°.

Caught this one on a redeye shad in chartruese bait:

DSC02288-2.jpgCaught this one on a redeye shad in bluegill color:

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I've had a couple 5+ fish days with a rattlin rapala in firetiger, but they were all under 4lbs.

All fish were caught in less than 5 FOW by simply reeling and ripping the bait free from grass or weeds. Also, a slight pause after ripping it free seemed to elicit some strikes too.

I've had a pretty good start with crankbaits, but the bite seems to have slowed a bit, with jigs and soft plastics doing a little better recently.

This is the only pic that I have. 5 lbs. 8 oz. on a Bandit 100 series in Tennesse Shad.

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I also caught a 4 lb. smallmouth on a crankbait, but I didn't have my camera with me :unsure:

Tom

I've had a great start to the season on crankbaits. I'm primarily throwing the XCalibur XCS 200 in Citrus Shad and Rayburn Red.

Caught a few on lipless cranks and shallow diving bombers

Strike King red Eye shad Chartruese w/ brown back

Strike King 4s square bill White w/ brown back

H2O Square bill Chartreuse w/ brown back

sad to say ive only caught a few bass on cranks this year. most of my fish have been on spinnerbaits. but i did manage to pull a 10 lb. pike out of my lake on a rat-l-trap.

All my biggest fish so far this year have come on a crank, a Bandit 200, pearl with chart back to be exact.

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and a crappie

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