atrophius Posted July 18, 2009 Report Share Posted July 18, 2009 Has anyone made some slopehead type crankbaits? I am trying a 2" version atm and was wondering if anyone had some experience with them or some photos for inspiration. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark poulson Posted July 18, 2009 Report Share Posted July 18, 2009 Do you mean with an angled front face, to help the lure dive without a bill, like a Slammer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atrophius Posted July 18, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 18, 2009 Yeah, thats the one. I saw that Fatfingers has some nice ones. I don't really need anything that big though. Can there be smaller sizes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diemai Posted July 18, 2009 Report Share Posted July 18, 2009 @ atrophius Such lures usually have a very "soft" action , when cranked , meaning that they would not wiggle rapidly like a lipped crankbait but rather come back in an irregular wave pattern , but with rod tip manipulation you can get some more out of them ,.... most likely . If you want an improved wiggling action on straight retrieve , you need to achieve that by the body shape , which has to be curved downward in that case , the greatest extreme of this would be a "Banana" style lure(posted threads and gallery pics about these) . Also I had found , that lures with a somehow "stepped face" , meaning , that they have more than only one plane , ("Swimming Mouse" , "Bomber", etc . check my earlier gallery uploads for my knock-offs , there are also more of other members in the gallery) , have a more rapid wiggle compared to such with only a single headplane . These kinda baits were amongst my earliest lures , just spindle-shaped with a tail taper and an about 45 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atrophius Posted July 18, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 18, 2009 Hey, thanks for that info. It makes more sense to me now. I made one yesterday and it has a one faced slope less then 45 degrees. I tried it in the tub and it does an action almost like a jerkbait. It zig zags back and forth on movement. I thought it to be a pretty neat action. Definitly a functionable movement, but I think I am gonna play with angle and line tie some more....along with some more research on those. Thanks again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atrophius Posted July 18, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 18, 2009 Ok, went looking some more through your gallery deimai, and it is the "pullbait" type design I am speaking of. How do those normally fish for you as far as movement and depth? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diemai Posted July 18, 2009 Report Share Posted July 18, 2009 @ atrophius I assume that you are refering to the flat-bodied type on page 16 of my gallery uploads , that I have named "Rolf's Wiggler" ,...... as I have uploaded another elongated simple pullbait on page 19 , which is made after a pattern download from :-:-: Lure Making :-:-: The Official LureMaking.com Website | Tackle Components | Lure Components | Lure Making Information | Lure Making Supplies , a Canadian component mailorder company . Anyway , that "Rolf's Wiggler" has a weight embedded into deepest part of belly to let it hang afloat at rest with just the back sticking out a bit at horizontal level . I fish it with long sweeps , it would than swing left-right a few times ,...... as the sweep ends and the line gets slack , it would dart just a little(maybe 1 1/2 body lengths) 90 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
