Crankbaiting Building Supplies

Figured someone would knw or has worked with it. Looking to do some painting of my own on crankbaits from mainly trolling for crappie. looking for a few good sources for supplies and bodies of crankbaits that troll well. Lots of the cheaper stuff does not troll very well. Any idea where to get bodies similar to bandits or slab hammers type bodies? I tried getting a few of the cheap china bodies and they just will not troll.

Also thought about just buying a bunch of the Bandit 200-300 $2.99 special lures and repainting but I would love to get he cost cut down to half that....

Thanks

Buying the specials are the way to go. You will have a fishable crank when you are ready to fish them. I have tried those cheap cranks also it they are a waste of time. Lot of times you will find stores running a sale on off named cranks, have not tried them but it wouldn't hurt to try a few. Good luck.

I push cranks. Add weight to the rig to get them down to slow troll.

KAG-might try Barlow, Janns Netcraft, lureparts online.com (also has catalog). Have thought about doing the crankbait self made effort, think components have jump in price the past year but might try it myself. My first buy would be air brush . . . what one do you use? Good source on air brushing is sippi board. Several guys do a great job with painting.Good Luck.

Check the Bandit website, look in the special section. banditlures.com

With me not every pulling/pushing cranks. Witch of the bandit series do I need to look at?

200-250-300 for pulling. Pushing it doesn't matter as much as the weight takes it down.

KAG, Don't know if this will help but I came across these earlier.
Unpainted Crankbait Bodies, Unpainted Fishing Lures, many body styles

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Originally Posted by stevefishes

KAG, Don't know if this will help but I came across these earlier.
Unpainted Crankbait Bodies, Unpainted Fishing Lures, many body styles

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Thanks it does help as it adds another source. I did opt for buying the bandit specials and then plan to repaint them

Steve, enter that link in the supply list sticky.

Tackleunderground is a great place for crankbait making.Also the great MR Tim Hughs in springfield Mo (fish and feathers) right by Bass pro Shops is a master at building and painting crankbaits has made a very good living at it!!!!! Lurepartsonline has some custom bait shops on thier web site!!!! hope this helps!!!! The old wiggle warts and rebel weeR's are selling for a good price repainted.a customer brought some unpainted baits for us to repaint friday!!!We have some on our web site we repainted Square bills!!!!

thanks i went to TackleUnderground and registered and have been spending a lot of time over there reading. Looking hard for some wiggle wart blanks that troll well

Here is a place that I have found a few good used baits at a good price, have to keep an eye on the site as the move them out pretty quick :)

Half Price Baits