The Daily Crank

Anglers Center – A Saltwater Oasis

The Anglers Center in Newport Beach, California has been serving saltwater customer since 1958. This southern California mainstay has earned a solid reputation among hardcore and weekend anglers alike.

KJ Gets Hitched – Congratulations!!

One our friends and Lucky Craft pro staffer Kelly Jordon recently got married this past June. I hope he doesn’t mind me doing this but I saw some pictures and Kerri is so beautiful that I thought everyone needed to see. We are so happy for Kelly and Kerri! Congratulations.

Kelly J Video from TackleWarehouse.com

Lucky Craft pro Kelly Jordon talks about one of his signatures lures the “Kelly J” and how to effectively fish it during the post spawn.

Baghdad Fishing Club

We just sent off a package of Lucky Craft’s headed to Iraq! Thanks Lou for setting are boys up!!

Below is Lou’s recent article about his efforts to get some good tackle into the hands our of troops serving in Iraq.

Help Dad Fish Like a Pro!

Help your dad fish like Skeet this year! Pick him up some Lucky Craft SKT crankbaits for Father’s Day

Dead Calm, Slick Sunny Days

A bit of wind also creates some current that may get baitfish active. If you’re fishing around points, maybe a bank with docks or a grassline with cuts in deeper water, the breeze could be enough to get things going.

Pointer 48′s in the Merritt Island NWR

Paul MacInnis recently wrote a nice article on the some local central Florida waters. The Lucky Craft Pointer 48′s appeared to be very effective on these local waters catching high numbers of bass and panfish.

Weekly Watts – For Big Snook…

For big snook, offer gold or natural colors Big snook are the bullies lurking the shadows, predators that hide among the mangrove roots in south Florida or the shores of Mexico ready to whack anything that looks inviting. When Greg and Bryan Watts of Florida are going after snook they most likely will have an [...]

Lucky Craft Team Journal – Clarks Hill

Casey battled through it well, though, posting his best finish of the season. He’s in 47th place in the Toyota Tundra Angler of the Year standings. Two tournaments remain for him to try to qualify for the Bassmaster Classic next February.

Cranks, Jerks and Grubs! – Mix It Up!

Lucky Craft pro Brent Ehrler used the technique to win the opening FLW Tour event last in March on Table Rock Lake. He used a Pointer 100 DD in Pearl Wakasagi for a limit weighing more than 22 pounds on the second day, and caught a few on a RC 2.5 DD crankbait in Ghost Minnow as well on his White River channel bend.

Fast Summer Cranking

When summer rolls around a lot of anglers believe you have to slow down in deeper water with huge crankbaits and big worms or jigs, or try your patience with few bites in shallow water with plastics or square-bill crankbaits.

Lucky Craft Team Journal – Guntersville

It’s an astounding run of success: Two wins, a second-place and two fifth-place finishes. The second-place finish came at the season-opening California Delta where he lost by just one ounce. But that began one of the most incredible runs on the tour in decades.

Weekly Watts – Don’t Overlook Gold

If you’ve ever drifted a flat and noticed a pod of baitfish, they typically have a dark appearance until they flit or change directions and that’s when the shimmering silver appears in the sunlight

Skeet on PreSpawn Jerkbait fishing

The guys at TackleWarehouse.com recently caught up with Skeet out at Clear Lake and talked about jerkbait fishing for prespawn bass.

Pointer 95 Silent – Smallies!

“I’ve got a new Lucky Craft model you might want to try. It’s the Pointer 95 Silent – no rattles, no weight transfer. It’s a completely silent suspending jerkbait for those finicky bass that may be turned off by sound. I’ve already caught ice-out largemouth with it. Let’s see what it does on river smallmouth,” I explained.

FLW Loudon/Tellico – Recap

Missed opportunities and a few costly lost fish put Brent Ehrler of California outside the 5-man cut for the final day of the FLW Tour’s third stop, this one last week on the Loudon and Tellico lakes in east Tennessee.

Smith Mountain – Lucky Craft Team Journal

Skeet dominated the Elite Series tournament on Smith Mountain Lake, working through his gameplan with a swimbait despite most of the field targeting bedding fish during the tournament on the clear-water lake.

Weekly Watts – Shiny or Dull?

Inshore species such as speckled trout, redfish, jacks and Spanish mackerel key in on the action and flash. Sunny days with little to no cloud cover and shallow water flats combine for a near-perfect stage to let a shiny bait perform.

Skeet Dominates Smith!!

Bucking the sightfishing trend and primarily working a swimbait, the Auburn, Calif., pro left the competition in the dust – his closet competitor was Jason Williamson more than the 14 pounds behind – amassing 78 pounds, 1 ounce, of Smith Mountain Lake bass to take his fifth Bassmaster victory at the Evan Williams Bourbon Blue Ridge Brawl.

Weekly Watts – The Kelly J for Speckled Trout

Watts often targets speckled trout with big topwater walking baits, but he’s learned they also love the new Kelly J topwater prop bait