The HEADBANGER Cranky Shad combines a hard, erratic, and evasive side-to-side Headbanger action with a powerful low frequency vibration that moves a lot of water and makes it easy to detect for nearby predators.
The Cranky Shad features rattle balls, realistic eyes, as well as internal holographic foils and transparent outer body paints that give the lure depth and a natural look.
This is a great lure for perch, pike and trout, but also for other predators. A simple, straight retrieve produces amazing swimming action, which can be further enhanced with pauses and twitches. It is suitable for shallow spin fishing, or for targeting pelagic predators. The erratic action also makes it an outstanding trolling lure that can be weighted or down rigged to reach desired depth.
Length: 64 mm / 76 mm
Weight: 10 g / 16 g
Depth: 0.3-1.5 m
Hooks: VMC 7548, #6, #8 / #4, #6
(Length is measured with Action Lip excluded.)
The HEADBANGER Cranky Shad combines a hard, erratic, and evasive side-to-side Headbanger action with a powerful low frequency vibration that moves a lot of water and makes it easy to detect for nearby predators.
The Cranky Shad features rattle balls, realistic eyes, as well as internal holographic foils and transparent outer body paints that give the lure depth and a natural look.
This is a great lure for perch, pike and trout, but also for other predators. A simple, straight retrieve produces amazing swimming action, which can be further enhanced with pauses and twitches. It is suitable for shallow spin fishing, or for targeting pelagic predators. The erratic action also makes it an outstanding trolling lure that can be weighted or down rigged to reach desired depth.
Length: 64 mm / 76 mm
Weight: 10 g / 16 g
Depth: 0.3-1.5 m
Hooks: VMC 7548, #6, #8 / #4, #6
(Length is measured with Action Lip excluded.)
Headbanger Lures
Headbanger Lures was founded in 2015 with the purpose of creating awesome experiences and lasting memories for passionate predator anglers using rod, reel and lure. We do this by designing and offering innovative and unique lures that move like nothing else you've ever seen.
The Search for Something Different.
For a long time, Swedish artist and passionate angler, Dan Lestander, was looking for a long-casting lure that also moved with a pattern that didn’t repeat itself like traditional lures did. After he realized that no such lure existed and the desire for it grew too strong, the only solution was to start experimenting on his own.
He started thinking about how he could create a lure that interacts with its element, water, in a way that would imitate a real wounded and stressed prey much more accurately than what had previously been achieved. He spent more than four years putting in a ton of effort into finding the key to making the lure behave in the way he had envisioned. Using his skills as a professional sculptor, he constructed over 50 different prototypes, handcrafted and handpainted, to test his theories.
The result of his discoveries was a revolutionary construction that made the lures behave in a way that he never could have dreamt about. Soon he found himself with a number of ideas of different lures that could be created with this, now patented, technical construction. These lures are what we are now creating and sharing with you.