Square Bill, We all have one I bet.

[Don]

I bought a Floating square bill for fishing tight spots and long tosses along the weed line. Ugly little thing. I'm using it on a rig I assembled for shallow water and accuracy for tight spots. It casts very nicely on Sufix Advanced 8lb line. When I cast it out and begin cranking it wobbles ferociously. In order to slow that wobble I must slow dramatically. Is this the way it is supposed to be?

 

[Solitario Lupo]

Let it wobble

 

[pabassman]

Looks like a KVD 1.5? I might have one or two of those. Squarebills have a hard wobble and are designed to hunt on the retrieve. They tend to bounce off rocks and stumps pretty good. Thats where the reaction strikes come from

 

[Don]

So, Gentlemen, Do I retrieve them at a fast wobble? this only sink a foot or so. Or do I slow it down and slowly wobble it ? in which case it floats like a Rapala.

Or do I mix it up?

It is the big KVD jobber...whatever that is.

I'm completely new to this type of lure.

 

[Solitario Lupo]

It all depends on what your going for and also time of year.

 

[Solitario Lupo]

Can always mix it up at points.

 

[Solitario Lupo]

Big toothy fish like the action the more it wobbles it will attract them.

 

[pabassman]

So, Gentlemen, Do I retrieve them at a fast wobble? this only sink a foot or so. Or do I slow it down and slowly wobble it ? in which case it floats like a Rapala.

Or do I mix it up?

It is the big KVD jobber...whatever that is.

I'm completely new to this type of lure.

Its a crankbait.... cast it out, crank it back! Watch a KVD video on it

 

[pabassman]

 

[Don]

Now why didn't I think of that. Can't wait to try it.

 

[pabassman]

Now why didn't I think of that. Can't wait to try it.

Crankbaits are not weed friendly. At least not the type of heavy weeds in the Pocono lakes

 

[Don]

Roger that. Thinking Upper Woods, Merrill Creek Res., Round Valley. All Trout Lakes. Then when it cools and the weeds drop out a bit......

 

[troutspinner]

I went through a cranking phase a few years ago and it’s just not a style I like so they sit in a box on the garage shelf.

I do have an Ott and Rebel Craw I will throw at times on my boat because they have proved to work for me but the others never did.

 

[Don]

I'm afraid of just that...That I'll make purchases and find it not what I thought.

When I was a kid, each summer I threw 3" Rapala (the only one I had), I pond and creek fished in those days and the rapala was easy. These days, in open weedy water there are better choices. I loved the Nockamixon Creek before they built the lake but my favorite area was the pool created by Stovers Mill Dam (now posted).

Then I put the rapala away and have never touched it since (though I have a nice collection).

 

[pabassman]

I went through a cranking phase a few years ago and it’s just not a style I like so they sit in a box on the garage shelf.

I do have an Ott and Rebel Craw I will throw at times on my boat because they have proved to work for me but the others never did.

They are more a fall bait for me. When the water dips into the mid 50s. We have done really well some nights on cranks. Nights when they're not weed oriented but on rocks cranks will outproduce about anything. The Rebel Craw was always an awesome bait in the Susky.

 

[truecrimson]

Don if those rapalas are taking up too mich space I can give them a good home

 

[Don]

Don if those rapalas are taking up too mich space I can give them a good home

What colors do you want, which length, jointed or solid. I see them all the time at fleas for about nothin.

 

[truecrimson]

Yes

 

[A-5]

I went through a cranking phase a few years ago and it’s just not a style I like so they sit in a box on the garage shelf.

I do have an Ott and Rebel Craw I will throw at times on my boat because they have proved to work for me but the others never did.

I’m with you. I’d rather watch Kamala Harris speak than throw a cranky bill

 

[A-5]

I’d throw a lipless before a crank