Lucky Craft Flat CB D-20 ~ Super Deep-Diving Crankbait

Model: Flat CB D-20
Type: Floating/Diving Crankbait
Weight: 3/4 oz (23.5g)
Length: 3" (75mm) excluding lip
Factory Hooks: #2 VMC Black Nickel
Depth: Approx. 15-18 feet

There are only a few crankbaits that can get deeper than 15 feet (without trolling) and that handle well at that level. It's by far the rarest class of crankbaits, the super deep divers. So when Lucky Craft came out with the super deep D-20 some years ago, it was immediately deployed with good results by a savvy cadre of the sport's top national and top regional pro anglers. The pros who have been using these all along desire to keep it low, and a number of regional level tournaments have quietly been won over the years on it.

With a lot of recent focus on fishing deep cranks on the top national BASS and FLW Pro Tours, particularly in 2008, the D-20 has been getting a lot of play and much press recently from the Lucky Craft national pro staff anglers, so you should see the D-20 grow in popularity going forward.

The D-20's much larger and dives deeper than most anglers typically use. Indeed, it's about as extreme and heavy duty as a bass crankbait gets to be. It's hard work to throw all day, but you can be well-rewarded by large bass landed on the super deep-diving D-20.

Bassdozer says: "One little thing to remember for the Flat CB deep-running models (DR, D12, D20) is to give them all a yank before cranking. Internally they have a large metal ball that moves in a chamber to the back of the bait to help maximize casting distance. The ball does not always automatically roll back down the chamber behind the diving bill at the completion of a cast. So you may need to yank them first to help roll the ball down into the diving position before cranking."

Color Considerations

The most popular colors across most every Lucky Craft product model are:

1. Chartreuse Shad. One of if not 'the' most popular Lucky Craft color. If you had to limit yourself to just one Lucky Craft color, Chartreuse Shad is the one.

2. Ghost Minnow. The most popular clear water color in the Lucky Craft line-up.

3. MS American Shad. One of the most beautiful of all Lucky Craft (or any other vendor's) colors. It is truly a special experience to fish with it. It is a high flash color for when fish want a lot of flash in a lure.

4. Aurora Black. Flashy yes, but much more subdued, and very popuular. In a separate class from, and not nearly as flashy as MS American Shad.

MS Herring is another of the most beautiful and fairly popular of all Lucky Craft colors. It is similar to MS American Shad in that they are both high flash colors. However, it is not available in every product model. MS Herring is not available in Bevy Shad 75, Moonsault CB-200, Moonsault CB-350, to name a few.

Lucky Craft Flat CB D-20 ~ Crankbait ~ Aurora Black

Lucky Craft Flat CB D-20 ~ Crankbait ~ Ghost Minnow

Lucky Craft Flat CB D-20 ~ Crankbait ~ MS Herring