Thread: I don't get trolling

I troll for the simple fact that during certain times of the year the fish are not in the brush on some lakes I fish. Besides that, crappie are notorious to suspend in open water and I like to follow them.
Don't get me wrong, I'll be on one end of my jig pole for most of the year. I love feeling a crappie when it hammers a jig. But it's a lot if fun when the fish suspend and I got 8 poles on the front of the boat!!

Im with ya i love that thump! I double rod alot, getting two thumps at once is awesome! 5 6 7 or 8 thumps at once sounds tempting! I bet a big ole catfish could set ya back for 10 or 20 minutes though! lol

Originally Posted by Fastdrop

That advice is what a friend told me one time about golfing one time. Thank Goodness I have resisted that trap.

I would like to have more of a reason than that. If it is just to catch more fish I can put out a trot line and jugs. I figure there has to be more to it than that cause so many folks do it.

Thanks for the welcome!!

I think this board is going to suit me just fine. So far the answers have been better than I could of hoped for. I know deer hunters who love to sit on a power line and shoot deer at 100 to 200 yards. They seem happy with the results and they usually are successful but I like to call them shooters instead of hunters. Give me the deep woods and let me get one with buckshot and I am a happy camper although i go a few years without pulling the trigger because I can't get a good shot or just don't find him that year.

I am convinced by the answers that there is much more skill to trolling than I was thinking it was.

as long as you feel the thmp

Everyone has their way of getting the juice going. I like to see that pole bend when a crappie hits the lure as it slides by. Sometimes it a really hard hit and the rod just bends over double. Other times the bite is a fairly soft/light, and the rod just slowly bends and then stays bent. You can get hard bites and soft bites trolling, but you don't "feel" the thump, you see the thump in the way the rod bends, and how fast it bends when they hit. On occasion, you hear the thump when the rod jumps and rattles around in the rod holder. Time to wake up, put the coffee and donuts down, and reel a fish in.

The home folks called me crappie top back in the day because on the Saline or Ouachita rivers sitting in one with a single pole in hand is where I could be found 75% of the time until I got serious with spider rigging and now thats my preferred style 90% of the time. It's more relaxing..I catch more fish...it's easier to learn new water and there is much more strategy involved than you might think and when you get dialed in on just the right depth, speed and lure and the poles start bending there is nothing like it.

Originally Posted by Tony McCall

Eight poles up front. Five of them hooked up in a 30 second span. There's nothing quite like it!

and those five have 1 1/2 to 2 lbers all on them at one time. Tony has it for me its those rod tips all going down at one time or very quickly in a min or less. Fun Stuff

it can be a three ring circus at times, but its definitely a fun way to fish with folks that arent on the water much and just want to catch allot of fish, great for the kiddos fur sure, keeps there attention much better and they can sit right next to ya for any assistance