What's your PB Crank fish???

[Kelly Ripa]

Non-trout bait type lure....I caught mine this Saturday on a Lucky craft crank that has been my favorite this year....under 10 pound fish still nice but I don't seem to catch very many of my big big fish on cranks. True, the reaction fish are usually my better fish but in my top 5 until saturday they were either swimbait or plastics fish. I had an 8 at Clear Lake at the nutcase event a few years back but it seems like the lowly worm time and again gets me my best fish of the year. I had a 9 in January the week before the HBC and thought it was going to curse me for the rest of the year as I just have'nt had a stellar year and wham! I guess the dark skies and rain are my freind as both of these fish were caught in cloudy and rain conditions.

Rip

P.S. I lost the lure to a tree and went back and ran my rod up it and it was hanging on a guide ...retied fished for 20 more minutes **snap** it sails up onto the bank...beached the boat and found it 10 minutes later in a bush.....Darn thing just doesn't want to stay in my aresenal anymore and from what I can tell they don't make it anymore ....Have to start fish'n it on 20 pound I guess

[mark poulson]

A 5+ on a rip bait at Castaic in the spring.

[some guy]

9.65... Lake Perris back in spring '00.

[big_gorilla]

10.52 in a tournament with 5 minutes to spare. We took second to some brothers no one likes.

The Linehans! Alright so people like them. lol

It was on a Norman's Deep Little N chartruese and white.

[buddy brown]

7lbs 12oz. Rattle trap, post spawn at night

[bassindon69]

9.16 on a Shad Rap #9 on the burn.....It just STOPPED IT! (2nd big fish) 1st place ,Ambassador Night tourney 2002.
That was on 8 lb line yes my knees were shaking

Don.

[ns nitro]

6.3 Hodges on a Norman little n ghost minnow pattern. Won 1200 bucks at a club tourney!!! Nate

[powerwiggler]

7lbs 13oz on a shallow crank.

[j10b]

5.14 but this was an east coast fish so its not these heavyweights ya'll have here.... We grow heavyweight girls like you grow heavyweight fish.

[TomL]

10.8 on a DD22 at Clear Lake in a Wed. night Turkey shoot.

[Alex M.]

We grow heavyweight girls like you grow heavyweight fish.

You ain't lyin'.......

[Ray L.]

I have caught 3 fish over 10 on cranks. They were all from Hodges on a fat free shad.
Biggest was 11 pounds 6 oz.
Big fish just inhale a crank when they want it.

[Hugh_M]

15#-15oz, Lake Casitas, 05/24/1987, Rebel Deep-Wee-R Chart/blk back, on Arrrow Isl point. Actual lure still hanging from the lip of the skin mount in my office.

[bassindon69]

Nice one Hugh!

Don.

[Rob Dickson]

9.01# 2007 perris on deep little n

[Oldschool]

If you believe Ray Easly; 21 lbs 3 oz Casitas lake record was on a Rebel Deep R crank bait ( live bluegill color).
Caught a few big bass in the 15 lb+ range on a custom 8" Bagley Bang-O at Castaic, Casitas and Isabella over the years, that today you might call that lure a "hard" swimbait. Several 10+ on the old Poe's ghost cedar 300 series, good big bass lure for those who still have them. Today the Norman DD22 seems to be working for a double digit bass on occasion.
Tom
PS; there is photo in an old In-Fisherman article of the 15+ and Bang O lure if intersted, PM me with your e mail.

[ash]

My PB is a 10lber on a Bomber Long A first fish I cought on the Delta about three years ago.

Cheers to the old tried and true!

[SoCalBassAssassin]

My PB is an 11 lb on a Rapala Extreme RAP jerk bait. The crapper is my girlfriend got a 9 pounder on a Norman DD 14 a few weeks ago at Casitas. Her second fish of her life. Go figure..