If you could only have 1 crankbait for smallmouth!

[NothingButDinks]

Thought this could be fun and also informative. If you could only have 1 crankbait for smallmouth in 2024 what would it be along with what color and size?

 

Mine would be a Frittside 5 in the special red craw color. Haven't caught any bigs yet this year with it but it's putting up numbers everytime I go out!

[PaulVE64]

DT4 in any minnow pattern.

 

 

 

.....mic drop

[Dye99]

Megabass z2 in any color.

 

[bowhunter63]

I fish Rivers so the Rebel Crawdad in crawdad color. The biggest one they make 

[FishTank]

Megabass Baby/BFS Griffon MX or the Z-2. 

 

But.... Bassday Mononofu 50S has been my killer smallmouth bait. It's a sinking shad style bait that they can't seem to resist. Extra hooks are almost a must with this bait though. I have caught so many on this bait that the almost all the paint on a few of them have come off. 

[Dwight Hottle]

Original luhr Jensen hot & tot with the metal lip. The Storm/Rapala version also works well.

[TOXIC]

As of right now, a SPRO Little John In Cell Mate.  I have a whole bunch of Buckeye cranks to try and see if they can unseat the SPRO’s. 

[Susky River Rat]

6th sense crush 55x

[MIbassyaker]

Any of the less expensive ones because I'm probably going to lose it.

[king fisher]

Rapala shad rap gold black back

[Columbia Craw]

Norman’s deep little N in translucent yellow perch.

[Jar11591]

DT-10 in Live Perch pattern. 

[A-Jay]

SPRO Mike McClelland RkCrawler 55 Crankbait in Phantom Brown

 

A-Jay

(hate only picking ONE color btw)

[IcatchDinks]

Whatever lure @A-Jay says I should have. 

 

My personal favorite is the Rebel Wee Craw in the Ditch Brown color. It works great for the shallow rivers I fish most often. (Chippewa, Flat, and Pine)

 

 

 

[J Francho]

Rebel deep craw. Still use them. 

[IcatchDinks]

8 minutes ago, J Francho said:

Rebel deep craw. Still use them. 

 

 

 

[MediumMouthBass]

Spro Rkcrawler, size depends on depth, all their colors are great.

They are some really nice crankbaits till you get stuck on the bottom, break off, and go to buy another when you find out how much they cost and remember youll probably fish the same area next week and break off again.

Then the Strike King 1.5s on sale often throughout the year for about $3 will suffice.

 

Crankbait fishing sure is great, but i fish mine the most in the river, and thats like fishing in a junkyard, each rain brings dozens of trees, tires, other things to get stuck on. But thats where the bass that are worthy of catching are. So it gets expensive quick, i think the one day i lost $30-50 in just a half hour (and those were the cheap lures). But you know the saying, the best way to become a millionaire bass fishing is to start off by being a billionaire.

[tholmes]

 

2" Hot'n'Tot in this color^

 

Tom

[gim]

2 inch Storm Subwart

[PaulVE64]

6 hours ago, Dwight Hottle said:

Original luhr Jensen hot & tot with the metal lip. The Storm/Rapala version also works well.

I still have one of those with the metal lip

[Mbirdsley]

probably a spro rk crawler 55  in either a green color, sparkle shad  or goby  

[PBBrandon]

6th sense Crush 50x all the way

[Cgolf]

Bandit 100. Caught 100s of river smallies on this bait.

[Shadow1]

Magabass "Flap Slap" . . . why you ask . . . It only dives about 5 feet.  However, it makes a great jerkbait, and I can play with weighting it and get it to suspend or slowly sink.  Can be used as a crankbait, BUT is very good as a jerkbait.  Go watch one of Smallmouth Crushes videos in jerkbaits.    

[Dogface]

19 hours ago, IcatchDinks said:

Whatever lure @A-Jay says I should have. 

 

My personal favorite is the Rebel Wee Craw in the Ditch Brown color. It works great for the shallow rivers I fish most often. (Chippewa, Flat, and Pine)

 

 

 

 

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