SEBILE Crankster MR ~ Medium Running Square Bill Crankbait

It's a deadly square bill crank you owe it to yourself to try because you never know what's going to crash your Crankster next!

Model	Size	Weight	Type	Casting	Line Test
Crankster MR 55 FL	2-1/8" / 55mm	1/2 oz / 14g	Floating/Diving	2 to 4 ft	4 to 12 lb
Crankster MR 65 FL	2-1/2" / 65mm	5/8 oz / 18.5g	Floating/Diving	4 to 6 ft	8 to 20 lb

The Crankster MR Medium Runner is bulbous, rotund and has a square bill extended out from the body almost as if it was on a miniature jackplate.

The Crankster casts an incredible distance and has an attention-getting tight, fast wiggle with a loud yet natural swimming sound that rings the dinner bell for any hungry predator.

A heavy tungsten bead inside gives Cranskters an attractive rattle that can be heard for long distances underwater. That makes the Crankster ideal for murky water where squarebils often work best. Yet even in clear water using a speedy retrieve, the noise will call bass from long distances to home in on the Crankster in deep, open water.

About the Crankster's remarkable distance casting ability, Patrick Sebile says, "Most crankbaits are not aerodynamic. Many will often spin in the air. Yet the Crankster, the first time you try it, you will see it casts like a rocket. The reason is it contains a heavy tungsten beads inside. When you cast it, 60% of the weight moves to the tail, for long distance and accurate casts," says Patrick.

Handy comparison of Crankster MR sizes from left to right: 65 MR, 55 MR and 45 MR.

Crankster MR sizes from top down: 65 MR, 55 MR and 45 MR

Astonishing Castability

You will be astonished by the Crankster's remarkable distance casting ability. Most crankbaits are not aerodynamic. Many will often spin and stall in mid-air. Yet the Crankster MR, the first time you try it, you will see it casts like a rocket. The reason is it contains a heavy tungsten bead inside. When you cast, the bead which is 60% of the lure's weight moves to the tail for long distance and accurate casts.

This unparalleled castability in a crankbait applies to overhead casts as well as underhand pitching of the Crankster into tight spots with precision accuracy. Even when pitching underhand or flipping (yes indeed) within heavy cover situations, the dense tungsten bead rests in the very tail tip of the Crankster as it dangles below your rod tip. This makes it as easy to pitch and as accurate to place as a flipping jig.

Knocking Noise

It's this heavy bead inside that gives the Crankster its attractive rattle that can be heard for long distances underwater. With this dense bead bouncing off the walls inside the Crankster, the decibel level is off the charts. No other crankbait knocks quite like this.

Extended Square Bill Design

The bridged square bill design, a unique feature of SEBILE lures, edges the lip out away from the nose of the lure, and that helps the lure react instantly. It's exactly how a jackplate extends an outboard engine away from a boat hull.

"Through lab testing, I discovered that in front of a lure, water turbulence causes a lure to lose about one-third of the lip's effect. So by remodeling the square bill the way it is on the Crankster, it works in harmony with the turbulence being created up front, which then creates the body action as the lure is cranked forward into that turbulence," explains Patrick.

Deflection and Snag Avoidance

That unique short square bill is designed to deflects sharply, shooting the Crankster wide to the side whenever it hits an underwater obstruction such as a rock, stump, brush or tough weed stalks. The rotund and bulbous body makes it more buoyant than most crankbaits too, and that buoyancy is also what makes the Crankster react so responsively.

The Crankster avoids most snags - and this is particularly true of the bigger 65 MR size.

As you watch it, you'll see the Crankster shoot way out to the side away from anything it hits, then quickly recovering and getting back on track. In especially troublesome spots, if it has no alternative but to come up and over the top of a snag, then it will roll over onto its back to do so. Watch and you'll see the lure go belly up as it rolls over the obstruction. That swings the hooks on top of the lure momentarily until it comes through cleanly and arights itself again.

There's definitely a knack to ripping the rod tip and therefore the lure sharply the exact instant whenever you feel it bounce against anything. That gets it ricocheting off the junk before it has a chance to bog down in it. Practice makes perfect, but once you become adept at this tactic, you'll be amazed how snagless the Crankster can be. It's hard work to fish this way, but rewarding.

The brawny Crankster MR 65 may be used with heavier line and a heavier rod in the heaviest cover. The Crankster MR 55 is ideal to bounce around more moderate cover.

55 MR for Everyday Situations

The mid-sized 55 is the perfect size that most anglers prefer for everyday cranking with medium gear. The 55 is a mid-sized shallow diver for everyday situations that are ordinarily faced by bass anglers everywhere. The Crankster 55 has a moderately loud rattling noise, but not as loud as the 65. It has a tight wiggle and a rapid visual swimming display that causes rapid vibration in the rod tip. If you are going to try just one Crankster size for ordinary fishing situations, the 55 is the one.

The 65 MR (left) runs 4-6 feet deep. It's great for power fishing with heavier cranking tackle. The 55 MR (right) runs 2-4 feet deep. It's the ideal size for everyday bass fishing situations.

65 MR for Beefy Tackle and Power Fishing

Clearly the 65 is a power fishing size for battling big fish on beefy tackle. This size is for heavy cover power fishing situations. It is good for tough cover and stout gear. It's also the noisiest model. If you ever want to hear a rattling crankbait that makes lifelike noise unlike any other rattling lure on the market, listen to the Crankster 65. It sounds like something alive swimming - maybe a whole school of them. You can hear it rattling underwater even when it is a long distance away from the boat. The 65 is much louder and causes much more vibration in the rod tip than the 55. Think of big fish in heavy cover or dark, murky water as 65 MR territory.

Using Both Sizes to your Best Advantage

You may use the 55 to quickly cruise down a bank to pre-fish it first with standard tackle in order to try to identify areas where schools of receptive fish are present along the bank. A standard size crank like the 55 is not selective, meaning it will attract more fish, especially smaller or average sizes, and may be used to reveal whether or not and where schools of fish are present. Where there are schools of bass, there are often big bass nearby, possibly a little deeper or a little tighter to the prime cover in the area, what's often called the "spot on a spot". Once you identify the whereabouts of a school with the 55, you then turn back around, come back later or come back during a tournament to the fishy areas you've found, except use the beefier 65 this time. The 65 is big for a squarebill crank and runs a little deeper than your typical squarebill. Use it to probe any unique cover (the prime spots big bass dominate) or try out a little deeper in hopes of attracting a better grade of bass this time. Try to locate the outlying areas where bigger bass will be stationed on the outskirts of the school. So you may catch large numbers of bass on the 55 using it as a search tool, and fewer but larger bass on the 65 - all from the same body of fish and location. You will catch more - and better - bass by using both Crankster sizes to your best advantage together.

Now that you know about the Crankster, it's surely no prankster. Try one today!