Starting to be my fav lure and i was/needing your advice on the setup y'all have for this lure. Rod/length? Reel? Ratio? Line?


.....thanks for any advice

Custom Angle Moby Crank Master 7' 6"
Invizx 12
Curado left handed E7 regeared 5:1
DD22/6XD

Dobyns 805 and 764 both w/ curado 200E5's usually with 12 or 14 ibs. mono

Square bills/shallow
7' medium Falcon Bucoo Micro
Curado 50e
14-17lb mono

6XD
7'10 Castaway DD22 Special
Curado e5
12-14lb Seguar

Deep Cranking + Dobyns 805 with 12 lb Vicious Pro Elite and 5:1 Lew's

Shallow (square bill) = Abu Veritas 7' Med/Hvy 12 or 17lb InvizX (depends on structure) and 6:1 Lew's

I run 6 crank Rods but plan to add another Monday.
1. Bandit 100- Falcon Lowrider weightless worm, shimano citica 100dsv,15 red label
2-3. Square Bills- (two Rods) Castaway Soft Touch Heavy, Quantum Exo, 15 red label....Academy Ethos 7' Composite Cranker, Quantum Smoke 5.1. 20 red label
4. 8-10' Cranks- Academy Ethos Composite, Quantum Smoke 5.1, 15 red label
5. 10-15' such as 5xd, rapala dt10- duckett 7'11", curado 200b 5.1, 15 red label
6. DD22 and 6XD, 6th Sense Custom 7'6" Cranker, Smoke 150 5.1, 15 red label

Square bills I use an 'Merican rodsmith 7' custom square bill rod. my dd crank bait rod is a duckett 7'11

Square Bills (Or any Crankbait):

7'0" Abu Garcia Veritas H - XF action
20 lbs invisx or 50 lbs power pro
Curado DHSV high speed retrieve

My type of power fishing

Shallow Divers down to 3' -- 7'0 Duckett Cranking paired with Revo STX 6.4:1 and Seaguar 15# Red Label

Medium Divers down to 10' -- 7'6 Duckett Cranking paired with Revo STX 6.4:1 and Seaguar 15# Red Label

Deep Divers down to 19-20' -- 7'11 Duckett Cranking paired with Revo STX 6.4:1 and Seaguar 15# Red Label

Ideally I Would prefer a Revo Winch on the Deep Diver...need to win some more money first. Lol

Where did you order the parts to re-gear a 201E7 to 5.0:1? I've been wanting to do that for years and I can't find the parts.

I compared the part numbers of a 200E5, 200E7 and 201E7 to see if there was a different part number for the same reel when it's left or right handed.....and there is. I didn't think you could run right handed gears in a left handed reel anyways...but I thought I would cross reference the part numbers. I was assuming that you could order the E5 parts and just swap....but looks like that is a no-go. Also, what gears did you replace: Drive, idle, pinion....or all 3?

What about Chronarch gears...will they work?

Dobyn's 805CB RM with a Shimano Chronarch 5.5/1. 12 lb Floro.

I mainly fish squarebills, so Im using a Dobyns Champion Series 705 cb, shimano citica, and 15 lb mono, the stretch of mono helps to aviod ripping the hooks out of the fish's mouth.

Powell 7'11, Revo winch

Powell squarebill rod, Revo Sx