I have noticed that everyone is always looking for a better way to store their Crank Baits so with the help of my wonderful mother, I have the solution! check out the Crank Canvas at http://www.crankcanvas.com
My mom made one similar for my Dad 20 years ago and it was still the best thing we’ve ever used. We have patent pending and our product is available online finally. It hold 54 crank baits and rolls up into a 6″ roll… once you see it… it just makes too much sense!!!
Mom’s empty pill bottles work too, lots of different sizes for different sized cranks, they protect hooks, no more tangled messes and you can just grab select ones you need for the day and throw them in a pocket. Oh, then keep the nice crank canvas clean and dry for the rest of them. Price is much better too if you just want to use the pill bottles.
Gregg,
I think the “Crank Canvas” is aimed more toward the guy who takes more than “couple cranks out for the day , and throws them in their pocket”
And unless you have over 300 of your moms old pill bottles, the crank canvas looks to be a good option for me and many others. But then again my mom doesn’t take much for medications. (lol) I Cant imagine picking sorting through hundreds of pill bottles trying to guess whats inside.
Tyler looks like great new product. Ill be willing to give it try. Looks like I could really save alot of room getting rid of all those plano boxes. Maybe a posted video to youtube , so we can see a little bit better how the cranks come in and out and the sizes of slots?
SKTR
The only trouble is many of mine are 5.5″ to > 6″ long. Some smaller crankbaits for trolling but most are jerkbaits, not that that would matter.
Interesting… Is there anywhere to see these in person?
Yeah, we are working on getting a video done towards the end of July. The original Crank Canvas has 8.5″ pockets, 6.5″ pockets, and 4.5″ pockets. I know you can fit up to a #13 floater in the 6.5″. We are starting to get on shelves in the Scheels sporting good stores in the Mid-West(ND, MN, SD, MT) We are all over online, and gaining new retailers daily! It’s only been a couple of months since I posted this, and we are gaining some serious ground. Anyone who buys one, comes back for more when they see for themselves how well it works! You can throw it around shake it upside down, and you get no tangles , plus you can see all of your lures without having to dig through ‘pill bottles’ that’s exactly the crazy efforts I see people going through that should be avoided. Dogs and kids can walk on it with some protection to avoid injury. And it floats! I’ll post a video as soon as I can.
Wow that is pricy.
I use a project case from FF for $5
Cut 1″ foam to fit.
Put in cranks.
Do so for my ice fishing spoons/jigging raps too.
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Few tangles. Quick visibility of the crank you are looking for.
Can buy 12 for one of the above.
I wish you luck and hope you catch a lot of fisherman for that price.
Looks like you’d have rusted hooks in less than two weeks usage IMO.
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Wow that is pricy.
I would be interested in seeing how they are made before casting judgment. These J-Plug and Spoon pouches have been the long time tested standard in “roll-up storage”. At under $20.00, I think most would take the cheaper solution.
https://amishoutfitters.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=3&products_id=15
As for rusting, anything that holds moisture and oxygen will fail if not properly dried out.
I don’t mean to give my whole pitch but in our defense we have been fishing with one for personal use for 20 years as previously mentioned, and it has less rust in the pockets than I see in most fishing boxes. You can see pictures of the original on our website http://www.CrankCanvas.com.By the time you take a lure off your line and replace it with a new one and get it back out in the water, the lure is typically dry enough to put away, but we usually through them up on the dash, and sort it out later when we are back at camp drinking beer!
The vinyl has held up through all of these years as well. We fish early spring in well below freezing temps, we actually just put one in the freezer last week, and took it out and were still able to use the pockets with no cracking, though they were plenty stiff. The Cordura canvas is the same material we use on our soldiers duffle bags.
It protects your investment. Full, with 54 crankbaits it has $400-500 worth of lures in it. They are separated in individual pockets so you no longer have any paint scratching off while they are rattling around in some plastic box. Also, at $5-15 dollars you’ll need four times as many of them and you will end up replacing the plastic boxes every 2-5 years to the fact that the plastic gets brittle, the hinges and clasps break, or you step on it and it cracks. Then when you go to get a new one, half the time there is some different box with some different shape and size. Ours can last a life time.
To each their own, I know guys that have 5-gallon buckets filled with them, and they have the time to waist. I like to fish a lot of tournaments, and I have yet to find anything that works as well. I even keep jigs and swivels in the pockets with my fishing license, so when I jump from boat to boat that’s all I have to grab. We have 3 models available right now, and are weeks away from producing the ‘Slugger’ which holds 12 Muskie Baits. If you haven’t seen Muskie baits before check them out, they are as wide as a pop can and up to 16″ long!
We have had people suggest making the product from cheaper materials, so we can bring the price down… sorry, but we want to sell the same experience we have had for the last 20+ years, not sell some junk that people have to keep replacing, that’s part of the problem we are trying to fix!
How will this product hold up on the sun? lets say i leave this rolled out in my boat at the dock. and the sun is beating on it all day, will it melt and wreck all my cranks?
Fishblood, did a quick count and you would probably only need a couple of the classics for your cranks there. That’ll be $120. Or you could buy $120 worth more of cranks, I wonder which?
I think it’s awesome you guys have an idea and got it to this point, but the question posed is a serious one every fisherperson is going to ask themselves when they see your product on the shelf.
Completely agree with keeping quality materials, that leaves the labor side. Wasn’t your Mom or Aunt or somebody making them at a time? They go union on you or what? 
It is a slick idea, but at that price point I’m not even picking it up in the store to look at.
I’ve told many vendors over the years to get good public opinion is to give free product. I’m not inclined to drop money on stuff that I’m not familiar with #1, and #2 may or may not be better than my current situation.
You send me 4 of those things and I’ll make sure to get out the word if they are good, groovy? 
These plano boxes are getting rather irritating as I have them under drivers seat and blindly reaching for the right box is getting old. With this product I see potential to alleviate the frustration.
If the stickbait is easily removeable and still stays in place even if held upside down it be a winner for a try even at the asking price.
Fishblood, did a quick count and you would probably only need a couple of the classics for your cranks there. That’ll be $120. Or you could buy $120 worth more of cranks, I wonder which?
LOL. All my cranks were not on the floor. I was just trying to find all my flicker shads and organize them. 
There’s about a dozen boxes missing from the photo.
The process to manufacture the Crank Canvas was not easy, Mom broke four needles trying to sow it and ended up taking it to a local seamstress to finish sewing them. Mom only made four of them because they were such a pain to make. That’s why Mom and Dad didn’t think to make them for a living, but we have 20 yrs of R&D into this product, it is not a gimmick, it is an investment. It’s a guys GUCCI! If a person can buy a $500 purse to use for one night on the town, it’s amazing that some won’t spend $75 to protect their equipment for decades.
It’s my job to let peoples comments roll off my back, I’m still young and a little ‘bull-headed’ so it’s not easy.I am just realizing that there will always be cheap nay-sayers who will take time out of their own lives to try to discredit someone.
Holds up perfectly fine in the sun from my experience. I cannot not say that I’ve left them in the sun for more than a couple of hrs, but for the most part the vinyl is nice and malleable, making it easier to use them on the hotter days. I wouldn’t leave anything out in the sun for too long if its over 90 degrees with direct sunlight though. But all of the materials have UV inhibitors, we made sure of that!
I shouldn’t have said anything at all and Tyler i have noo doubt after your twenty year trial that this will hold up. Your price point obviously is based around the products VALUE!
It’s too easy for me to fish 3 days straight or to fish till dark and put the boat away wet. My only concern is corrosion and that is why I’ll pass. I don’t take the time to dry out lures. That’s why I have a box that allows lures to dry. I wouldn’t call my option cheap. I am an engineer and created my boxes for their functionality and not to save money… I love spending money.
I think your product will do fine. You gotta have thick skin to post a product on a fishing forum. Take people’s initial comments for what their worth and nothing more.
You’ll be the one laughing when I’m working and your fishing off the income of your families invention!
Yeah Buddy! Thanks for that last post! I actually will be self employed as of this coming Friday, so my last day working the daily grind is Thursday which also happens to be my B-Day. Almost like I planned it that way.
We are going to be attending the Game Fair expo in Ramsey, MN starting Aug. 9th. Hope to see you there!
Congrats Tyler and Welcome!!!
Good luck at the Fair. I gave up a weekend of fishing for a softball tournament that weekend. I’ve yet to give up any fishing time for a fair though. I hate lines and crowds of people…But they’re not in line for my products either so have fun.
That’s a lot of cranks for a sturgeon fishermen Andy…
My only question on the crank canvas is whether or not the sharp hooks get caught on the vinyl when trying to remove them? I know the frustrations of pulling a crank out of a plano box and having four others attached to it, but that pales in comparison to getting a treble hooks stuck in any punctureable material.
If you do a video could you please do it infomercial style and show a black and white video of a guy struggling to untangle a bunch of crankbaits and then getting like three of them stuck in his hand and somehow dropping the rest of them in the lake?
“TIRED OF UNTANGLING ALL THOSE CRANKBAITS WHILE EVERYONE AROUND YOU IS CATCHING FISH? LOOKING FOR A BETTER WAY TO STORE YOUR LURES?”
“WELL NOW YOU CAN!”
BUT WAIT! CALL NOW AND WE’LL DOUBLE YOUR ORDER
FOR FREE!
THAT’S ENOUGH TO HOLD 108 CRANKS!
I just got off the phone with a video production company, and we are meeting tomorrow morning, so the video is on its way!
As to your question about the hooks puncturing the material. We advertise as a good ‘first line of defense’ for you dogs or kids if they happen to step on the crank canvas. You’ll get pricked by the hooks if you stand on it, I am close to 200 lbs. and I have walked all over it in my stocking feet at trade shows, but I’ve never once had a treble hook in my foot. I stopped doing it, because I started breaking lures. The display on our table at trade shows I pat down the vinyl with my bare hand with a pretty heavy hand, and again have never had injury.
So it will puncture, but the vinyl has shown that unlike a woven fabric, when punctured all the way through, the hole doesn’t close in around the barb, making it easy to slide the hook right back through. We didn’t want to try prototyping with a perforated vinyl because even though it would help with drying, it would also be nothing but holes for the hooks to snag, however when the vinyl gets punctured, like our original, I tell people it’s like a seasoned pizza pan, the more you use it, the better it gets.
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