Casting or trolling; daytime, nighttime, anytime; suspending crankbaits and body baits are fabulous for fooling fish. They have great swimming action when they’re on the move, and the stop-and-go motion you can create-the lure neither rising nor falling-will trip the trigger of feeding fish. In short, whether swimming or sitting still, fish of all species will have a hard time passing up suspending lures. But there’s more to catching fish on them than meets the eye.
Before Mass Production
It was the mid 70s through mid 80s-before companies such as Rapala and Storm, for example, were producing suspending lures-when professional anglers discovered just how good baits were that sat still in the water column when at a rest. But it took hours of painstaking time and effort in our garage shops to turn the lures we had into suspending baits.
Back then, we’d take a Rapala Original Floater, as an example, and add just the right amount of weight, in just the right places on the belly of the lure, to not only get it to suspend, but to keep its original fish-catching action. Read more….