Thread: Chinese crankbaits

here's a link http://www.dhgate.com/wholesale/fish...larcate-024055 There's others, some even tell who buys them here and how many.

Originally Posted by crappieseeker

what colors worked best and are they different sizes for depths? What is the best size?

It's entirely a personal choice. I bought the factory C549 and C55 in colors 36,30,34, and14. There are other choices of sizes in the blank baits. The C55 run true out of the box and will dive slightly deeper than a 300 Bandit. They are slightly larger. The C549 is roughly the size of a Shad Rap and run true.

Originally Posted by crappieseeker

did the bandits come non painted for 1.88 each or is that what it cost you to paint each one? Did they have a sale on painted ones?

The baits I'm talking about in that post were brand new ready to fish Bandit 300s in a painted pattern called Toad Frog. They were $1.88 each. I bought 20 for them and painted them to patterns I wanted. I've never seen blank Bandits. I've bought a bunch of 100,200, and 300s that I've repainted and replaced the hooks on with Matsuo sickle trebles.

China has great hooks these days!

Today at WalMart I purchased a pack of Creme 1 1/2" shad shape minnows. Super sharp thin wire hook with the lead hidden inside (like a small Storm Shad). The three pack was only $1.82 (at my local WalMart Supercenter here in York, PA).

3D eyes and no stinkin' jig head to fasten to. I was tearin' up the Crappie today with this wonderful soft plastic lure. It works better than the plastic stuff I already have.

Tomorrow, I'll pick up a couple more packs?

I looked at the C55 and it says they are 4 inches. I would have thought that would be too big for crappie.

Originally Posted by mrdux

It's entirely a personal choice. I bought the factory C549 and C55 in colors 36,30,34, and14. There are other choices of sizes in the blank baits. The C55 run true out of the box and will dive slightly deeper than a 300 Bandit. They are slightly larger. The C549 is roughly the size of a Shad Rap and run true.

Originally Posted by crappieseeker

I looked at the C55 and it says they are 4 inches. I would have thought that would be too big for crappie.

The C55 is 4"...




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Compared to the Bandit 300...which is 3.5"...



MRDUX will have to comment on if there is a difference to the fish...

Rickie

Originally Posted by crappieseeker

I looked at the C55 and it says they are 4 inches. I would have thought that would be too big for crappie.

I honestly don't think a 4" inch is no where near too big, have caught a bunch of 5" and 6" crappie that have a whole Bandit 300 in there mouth. Here we are targeting at least a 12" fesh as the size limits wont let us keep them any smaller and wish we weren't getting hit as much by the smaller fesh.

Do not take into consideration the length of the diving bill .... then the "body" length of the Bandit is 2" long, and the China lures are 2.5" long.

I've caught, and seen caught, Crappie less than 6" long when trolling Bandit 300's ... I really don't think an extra 1/2" of body length is going to deter many dinks from taking a shot at one of the China cranks

... cp