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Custom Painting Cranks

A couple of months ago I was fishing from the shore and happened upon a crankbait. A Mann's 15+ to be exact, with no paint, covered in dirt, and rusted of hooks. I picked it up and said, hell, I should repaint this. So I did.

Too bad I didn't make sure the bait worked first, cuz it don't. After a lot of reworking of the bill, its close, but not there yet. I knew I could do better though, so I ordered some blanks, snagged some old baits, and started painting. These are the four most recent cranks, one RC 2.5 in Green Shad, two wiggle warts in Spring Craw, and two Jackall MRs in Spring Craw. I'm still trying different variations of the patterns to see what I like/works best.

Let me know what you guys think of em. The pics are a bit distorted, but what the hell.
UPDATE:
I caught a 3lber on my first trip out with the Jackall hinged type baits. Very cool, it hit like a freight train.

Zack

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Comment by Chris Gregersen on July 28, 2009 at 12:20pm: Basically

Comment by Zackery Shaff on July 28, 2009 at 11:48am: You know you want some of that too.

Comment by Chris Gregersen on July 27, 2009 at 8:11pm: Jeeze what kind of fish would ever hit one of those? OH....righttt

Comment by Jerry on July 20, 2009 at 3:19pm: Dude...very nice

Comment by Jeff Grimes on July 17, 2009 at 10:11am: not bad Zach......here is a site of a guy I know in Oklahoma that does it as a business. He is good and maybe you can get some ideas from his site.

www.baitwerks.com

another one that I don't know personally is......

www.thecrankincracker.com

Jeff

Comment by Zackery Shaff on July 17, 2009 at 8:18am: Thanks guys. I took some new pictures to show off some of the details that were missing from the previous ones. Eventually I may sell some, but I still want to practice and work on the finish durability first. Gotta make sure its a good product. The spring Craw color was inspired by prefishing for banks lake earlier this year.

Comment by islandbass on July 17, 2009 at 1:00am: Right, Zack! I have been looking forward to seeing you finally post this up. Your craw color scheme is, in the words of the neighborhood kids, "Tight," and they sure beat my Citrus Pirahna with shark teeth. :) I also like the scales on the blue on.

Comment by cody hampton on July 17, 2009 at 12:18am: i would defanently give you money for those baits, great paint job, the spring craw wiggle wart to me has bass catcher written all over it

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