Topwater Crank — A Lure I Built and Loved

I’ve been fishing for more than ten years now, so making my own lures eventually became something I couldn’t avoid — it just felt like a natural step. I’ve created many different kinds, but the one that caught the most fish was this particular shape (I call it a “topwater crank,” though maybe that’s not the right term).

The color that worked best isn’t with me anymore, but it had aluminum foil on the body, with a bluish-green top and a white underside — something like a young-ayu color pattern. Catching fish with a lure you made yourself is incredibly fun in a way that’s hard to compare to anything else.

People who don’t fish might wonder, “Why do they catch fish, release them, and then go back to catch them again?” To be honest, even while I’m doing it myself, I still don’t have a clear explanation — at least not one that everyone would find convincing.

But maybe that kind of one-sided thinking exists everywhere in the world. Each person’s “common sense” is, at the same time, someone else’s “nonsense.” And the world keeps turning with all of those contradictions living side by side.