Floating Crankbait Idea

[benm98]

I was fishing with some young kids the other day and the bite was nonexistent, so I threw some bread out to get some bluegills to come out and I had an idea. Small bluegill and other baitfish were grabbing a piece of bread at the surface, then swimming back down to eat it. My idea would be to create a shallow crankbait that floated with its bill facing up, and the tail facing down so it would create a splash then swim down, to emulate this action. Do you think it's possible?

[mark poulson]

Sounds like it should work.

[Nathan]

Where you talking about the diving bill coming out of the head of the bait on top?...Nathan

[diemai]

@ benm98

 

I had tinkered on a lure design sporting a similar action a couple of years ago , ......floats at rest and pops on the surface to dig down steeply when the retrieve is commenced with a little jerk or twitch of the rod .

 

Check out these gallery pictures of mine , ...it is the lure with a metal lip :

 

http://www.tackleunderground.com/community/index.php?/gallery/image/2562-cuptails/

 

http://www.tackleunderground.com/community/index.php?/gallery/image/2563-cuptails/

 

http://www.tackleunderground.com/community/index.php?/gallery/image/2564-cuptails/

 

In this video at 5:02 there is a similar lure employing the same principle on bath tub display , ....sadly the frame rate of the vid collapsed for some reason , so not much to be seen , the audio is OK , though.

 

 

 

This design really works , but the lip is pointing downward rendering the lure tailheavy , not upward as you had stated .

 

I think , that a tailweighted lure with an upward pointing lip could never get to dive down too deep , as tail ballast always counterworks diving performance .

 

Greetz , diemai

[benm98]

Diemai, that's ingenius! A popper that also doubles as a diver! I'll have to give that a try!

[mark poulson]

   

[diemai]

Diemai, that's ingenius! A popper that also doubles as a diver! I'll have to give that a try!

You might want to install a transparent lexan lip , ...in this case some ballast on the lip side might become neccessary to let the lure float up as much vertical as possible .

 

My lures do not have any added ballast , alone the aluminium lip's weight and the minor buoyancy of the tapered front body portion let them sit nose down that much .

 

When the retrieve is paused and the lure is rising up again , it would sit at an about 45° level , as the water pressure on the cupped tail pushes the lure to that position , thus when breaking through the surface , a good portion of the water inside of the deep cupping would be released so that the cupping would be sufficiently deep enough again to create a vaccum and popping sound on the next jerk .

 

Naturally you'd need to utilize a buoyant kind of wood , ..mine are made from Abachewood , but which is hard to obtain in the USA , as it seems .

 

Good luck , ....diemai

Edited November 6, 2013 by diemai