Crankbaits and Barramundi

I have been fishing lure-fishing-predators over 30 years, especially black bass. I follow up bass fishing professional tournaments, read magazines, speak to experts and gather up information to catch bass for years, but fishing barramundi was a bit different from bass. Therefore, I got to learn it from zero because I couldn’t find good ol’ barramundi fishing technique reports much, especially not in my native tongue.

So, I had to imagine how barramundi behaves like and stuff, using my bass fishing knowledge.

For the first barramundi fishing trip I had in Thailand, I brought many jerk baits, lipless baits, and crank baits which were my frontline hard baits, and any predators shall bite at anywhere.

But NO BITES on cranks by barra!

I challenged to cast the baits in the past one year but no response from the fish. When I caught a barra then another came, due to their behavior, there should be a school of them. I changed my bait to a crank and tried but no bite on it. Then, switched it to something else, there came another bite…
All the fish I caught on crankbaits were catfish and snakehead.

There was one time I caught a barramundi on the crankbait. It was a DD-22 (Norman). However, it was like I cranked my reel handle once, and it bit on the lure. Thus, to me, it was a reaction bite that barra had to bite; it could bite on anything.

From my short period of the experience of fishing barramundi, I believe they don’t like “too much wobbling” baits. For the jerkbaits, I think they prefer to bite on the tighter rolling action types than wider wobbling types.
But I am still testing many kinds of actions for barra. I will updates info on crankbaits v.s. barra sometime later.