My tackle was stolen from my boat so I have an insurance check to spend. Most of my hard baits (cranks and topwater) were quite old anyway, so I have a chance to start fresh. Comment with your go to Crankbaits, maybe one shallow/squarebill, one medium, one deep, as well as your go to Top Water or Jerk Baits. I'd love to have input when I go shopping. I mainly fish Clark, Cedar Creek, Fork, Waxahachie and Joe Pool. Thanks.

IMO, hard to beat 1.5 Strike King squarebill. It's probably put more fish in my boat than all my other types of hard baits combined over the last few years. I like Rapala's various jerkbait offerings.

Get all chrome blue back - 1 each of Chug Bug, Rat-L-Trap, Rogue, Norman Deep Diver, and a H20 squarebill and you�re all set.

I would be stocking with 100% Lucky Craft hard baits

First off, sorry about your gear getting stolen!

Strike King KVD 1.5 for the shallow/squarebill, Berkley Digger for the medium, Strike King 6XD for deep, Heddon One Knocker Spook for topwater, and Megabass vision 110 for the jerkbait (Berkley Cutter is a great choice if you don''t wanna pay for the Vision 110).

Some of the other brands I also love are: 6th Sense, SPRO, Duo Realis, and Lucky Craft. Hard to go wrong with anything they make. If I had to pick 2 brands, it'd be Berkley and Strike King.

cranks on CLARK!!!


Get ones without hooks!

You fish all the same lakes I fish. Chartreuse with a black back and sexy Shad colors are all you need for cranks. Traps get black/chrome.

Top water get a few of the new net bait paddle tail buzz baits and a few sexy frogs.

I have good luck on Cedar Creek with Shad 6th sense squarebils and Aruku lipless in Old Glory and Red Eye Shad in the chrome colors both silver and gold.

Pick the ones you have confidence in and have thrown a lot. Get extras. No sense in getting lots of stuff you�ll probably never throw.

Haaaahaaa!! We need to get a trip together! I�ll supply the boat if you bring the baits! Seriously, I will look at those baits and appreciate the input. Been catching only a few at Clark, but I�ve been using hooks :-). Maybe I need to remove them and I�ll catxh more :-)

All H2O baits from academy....

Don't forget some red baits for spring.

I'm selling everything!! Getting out of fishing. Pm me if interested. I tournament fished for several years and have amassed a decent collection.

I would buy only a couple to get you through a couple more months and then load up at Black Friday/Christmas sales. Should be able to find things at 15-20% off. I would also check the Classifieds for deals as people (including me) buy entirely too many hard baits.

But to answer your question I personally like Spro and 6th sense since they are well built, the colors are great and the hooks don't need changed out. Also I think the fish see less of these versus Normans and Strike King.

For me:

Squarebill: Lucky Craft DRS 1.5 and Silent 1.5
Medium Divers: Rapala DT4,6,10
Deep Divers: Strike King 6XD 8XD 10XD, Spro Little John DD
Top Water Prop: - River2Seas Whopper Plopper, Humdinger Buzzbait
Top Water Walking: Heddon Spook, Strike King Top Dawg, Arashi Top Walker

Take your time reloading. Buy what you need and what you use.