shade_skyhi Posted January 16, 2017 Report Share Posted January 16, 2017 How do you determine angle of bill on crankbait Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark poulson Posted January 16, 2017 Report Share Posted January 16, 2017 I look at a successful commercial bait that dives to the same depth with the same action I want, more or less, to give me a starting point. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurenerd Posted January 17, 2017 Report Share Posted January 17, 2017 What Mark said . I trace around a factory lure and mark the angle of the diving bill then cut out the blank and the diving lip slot...works pretty well so far. Its been interesting playing around with the angle, shape and size of a diving lip to see how it changes the action of a particular lure body. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobP Posted January 17, 2017 Report Share Posted January 17, 2017 X3. There aren't many easy answers as far as crankbait design goes. Lip angle is a case in point. I think most of us amateur builders start with a commercial crankbait that we like, copy it, and from there tweak later baits to get differences in the performance that we want. Changes in lip design and angle from one iteration to another? You could write reams of rules, theories, trial results, etc - and a lot of them have been discussed here in past threads. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shade_skyhi Posted January 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2017 thank you BobP,Lurenerd and Mark Poulson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonister Posted January 26, 2017 Report Share Posted January 26, 2017 Experiment! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
