All the rage of the past few years has been the custom painted crankbait craze.  Born out of tournament anglers looking for any edge they could get and the advances over the years of the airbrush painting equipment, techniques and raw materials custom crankbaits are a great way to give the fish a different lookt than they have seen before.  Whether you are looking to match the preyfish on your favorite lake or just trying to make the lure stand out just enough from that standard paint job that the big lure manufacturers employ a custom painted lure is just the ticket to set it aside from an out of the box crankbait.

For instance a common bait fish in lakes throughout the USA is the common sunfish.  If you look at the out of the box standard colors from lure manufacturers you will find some with the broad coloring of a sunfish, but definitely not in the same class as a custom painted lure.  The airbrushed lure just jumps out at you with it great patterns and coloring.  Look to the right to see a great example of what a sunfish crankbait can look like.

Or perhaps the classic crawfish is the bait that the predator fish are looking for in your local body of water.  The standard colors are great and all that, but they don't quite do justice to how a true to life crayfish looks.  Look to the right for a great example of red crawdad paint job.

On top of the great paint jobs that are available with a custom painted bait, a better than your standard crankbait topcoat is applied to ensure years of top flight use for your bait.  We have all had baits that only last a couple of lures before they are absolutely shot on their topcoat covering.  Given the painstaking process that these lures go through to get that great paint job, a top end clear coat is applied.  This top coat is far superior to what you will find on standard crankbaits from major manufacturers.  They can't afford to put that high quality coating on all their baits in their cost cutting moves to meet certain price points.

We all know that shad are one of the greatest bait fishi in all of fishing.  Almost all predator fish love nothing more than a shad meal whenever they get a chance.  You can buy the standard colored shad lures out there and they work, but a custom paint job really takes this look to a whole other level. The scales and coloring really can't be beat.