All my Crankbaits make rattling noise. any silent contenders?

[Darth-Baiter]

I think I want to drop a few quiet Crankbaits into my box.  any recommendations?  medium depth?  5 footers?  dunno.  I suck with cranks.

[Ben77]

Strike king kvds and lucky craft 1.5s work for me!

[AlabamaSpothunter]

Frittside crankbaits are what a successful tourney angler just told me about the other day.   

Got one to try.   That said, so many companies offer silent versions of CBs.    Lots of good options.  The Berkeley ones are 8.99, so not that bad on the wallet.   

[GReb]

Lucky Craft, Spro, and Rapala make great silent cranks 

[WRB]

Wooden/Balsa diving crank baits are silent, several brands available at various diving depths. 

Tom

[Deleted account]

Pretty much every crank has a silent version. I like the LCs and DT6s, but they all work, but if you suck with noisy cranks, you gonna suck with silent ones...

[Darth-Baiter]

13 minutes ago, Deleted account said:

Pretty much every crank has a silent version. I like the LCs and DT6s, but they all work, but if you suck with noisy cranks, you gonna suck with silent ones...

hahhhaa..

 

let me make a wildass guess.  you make a living as a motivational speaker?  

[crypt]

if you can find one an old Poe's RC1 was a favorite of mine.

[Deleted account]

15 minutes ago, Darth-Baiter said:

hahhhaa..

 

let me make a wildass guess.  you make a living as a motivational speaker?  

No, but it brings me back to my tennis days,

Client: "which racquet and strings are good for my backhand?"...

Me: "What backhand?"

[Darth-Baiter]

hahha.

 

back to topic.  I found a KVD 1.5 in a box in my garage.  and went to the store to find the last Lucky Craft.  got my game face on.  

[WRB]

Rapala Fat Raps and OG’s are silent.

Tom

[CM-fisher]

Rapala DT 6's are my favorite silent cranks

[Log Catcher]

I like the Spro Little John crankbaits. They make them in silent and rattling.

[Jamo]

I have some silent Strike King KVD 2.5's that have some good teeth marks in them. I also have some LC 2.5's that I picked up during the Christmas sale a few years ago. They all run close to 5 foot depth but I'm not sure if they fully reach it

 

[Bass Rutten]

DT's are not silent, they have a subtle rattle in them but are quieter than some others, same with the spros. The lc's, kvd's, and bagley b's are my favorite silent ones.

[Woody B]

FWIW I've never heard a "real" baitfish rattle.  Why do they make crankbaits that rattle?   (to catch fishermen?)

 

I will reluctantly use a crankbait that rattles and occasionally catch bass on them.  However I have switched from rattling crankbaits to silent ones and started catching bass.  I've never switched from silent to ones that rattle and started catching bass.

 

 

What I'm saying is I believe that sometimes the rattle don't hurt anything but they never help anything.  I've injected rattling baits with glue to silence them.  

[Deleted account]

1 hour ago, Woody B said:

FWIW I've never heard a "real" baitfish rattle.  Why do they make crankbaits that rattle?   (to catch fishermen?)

Yeah, but that assumes that we are fooling fish into thinking lures are forage, and that is often not the case. I've never seen baitfish riding tiny helicopters with blades whirling above them, yet spinnerbaits work great.

[whitwolf]

Carolina custom crankbaits are Balsa and made in Valdese NC. Their models cover from 2-10 feet. Jason is working on a deeper model that I will help field test early Spring.

[Dan N]

6th sense Crush 50s (silent)

been doing well on them, and come with great hooks.

Also a fan of the rapala bx brat

[Big Hands]

6 hours ago, Dan N said:

6th sense Crush 50s (silent)

been doing well on them, and come with great hooks.

Also a fan of the rapala bx brat

Caught some nice fish on both of those last week in Texas.

13 hours ago, Deleted account said:

Yeah, but that assumes that we are fooling fish into thinking lures are forage, and that is often not the case. I've never seen baitfish riding tiny helicopters with blades whirling above them, yet spinnerbaits work great.

I think they often eat things because they can, not so much because they should.

[Munkin]

There is no true silent crankbait as the hooks and split rings make a rattling sound.  That said the LC 1.5 square bill and SK Silent series are my first choice.

 

Allen 

[RHuff]

On 11/4/2022 at 3:06 PM, AlabamaSpothunter said:

Frittside crankbaits are what a successful tourney angler just told me about the other day.   

Got one to try.   That said, so many companies offer silent versions of CBs.    Lots of good options.  The Berkeley ones are 8.99, so not that bad on the wallet.   

 

 

Shhhhh lol

 

Also.. The Rapala DTs and OGs are silent balsa

[casts_by_fly]

On 11/4/2022 at 1:43 PM, Darth-Baiter said:

I think I want to drop a few quiet Crankbaits into my box.  any recommendations?  medium depth?  5 footers?  dunno.  I suck with cranks.

the og6 is my spring silent tight wobble crank. The dt6 is my go to nearly silent crank the rest of the year. A lot of waters here are pretty high pressure and clear so a more subtle crank seems to be better. 

 

On 11/5/2022 at 5:42 AM, Woody B said:

FWIW I've never heard a "real" baitfish rattle.  Why do they make crankbaits that rattle?   (to catch fishermen?)

while an individual baitfish doesn’t rattle in itself, a school of baitfish will produce a rhythmic whoosh as they swim that isn’t far off a higher pitched rattle. I’ve heard it myself while snorkeling and diving.

 

 

[Chris Catignani]

Even without rattles...all the hardware makes noise too.

This is one of the reason I started making my own.

If I decide to add a rattle...it can be glass in glass...brass in metal...etc

[ATA]

Norman Lures crank baits in any depth and color you looking and they are all you need.