"Off" Brand Crankbaits & Effectiveness?

[LBrandt]

Flicker Shads are my go to. Must have a 100 of those. Cant seam to walk by them with out throwing a card or two in the cart.

 

[dean nelson]

My problem is that I want at least, well, actually, all of them! And at least 3 of each color. I might have an addiction. Someone on walleye central put it best... My biggest fear is that my wife, when I die sells all my fishing gear for what I told her I paid for it!

That's why I love the direct selling a guy can find now. It's funny buying from them when I see a crank for three dollers and I get irritated in they're overcharging.



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Couple others.

 

[CAH]

Dean, that seems way too good to be true.... have you actually used that site??

 

[dean nelson]

Oh yeah all the time. Each seller is different like eBay so I never do big purchases on my first time for a new seller. But sofar it's been great with no troubles what so ever and with no tax and often no shipping and the fact many have bulk buys where you can get 5-20% off the listed price it makes going into sheels a bit of an eye opener.

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Oh and that place will make you really ballsy with where you fish them when loosing a half dozen baits doesn't break the bank.

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one more for you. This one made me laugh with its sale price on its normal sale price vs directly from the factory.



And the slightly better price.

 

[RangerNation81]

I used to be a "bargain" shopper when it came to cranks! I would be guantity over quality any day! Then a good friend of mine got me turned on to Reef runners and i've never looked back! Yea the flicker shads are nice and all but when a fish sees all 15 or so colors 5,000 times a day I feel they tend to shy away from them. You toss a off the wall colored RR at them and they smash it. When it comes to cheap off brand I feel that you get what you pay for. As far as tuning goes I think there is bad ones in all brands of cranks!

 

[DirtyMike]

Like someone stated earlier, brand name cranks are hard enough to tune sometimes. I'm not going to mess with chinese knockoffs unless its a lipless crank.

 

[JayKay]

This is the reason why I won't sell knock off brand cranks during the open water season. I only want to do repaints.

And this is why I bring you brand new Rapala Original Floaters, still in the box.

 

[Lapper]

Is that from this spring already Jaykay?

 

[JayKay]

No, I'm sorry. Didn't mean to get anyone's hopes up. It's from the December before last. My point though, is that that's a #11 Original Floater, in a color in which they don't make that lure. And it tricked a few nice walleyes that fall. That was just my last fish of 2015.

I was out last week though, and had not even one nibble.