Hey Arab, my late friend David and I would start pulling cranks in earnest in June for sure or when the temperature of the water went above 80°. We use to bump into you a few times . We tried a lot of cranks but the bandit 300 hot pink was always the go to crank bait. Not sure why as I haven't seen anything alive bait wise in the water that color HA .all black and all white came in at a distant second. we usually pulled at about 1.76 to 2.0 mph following the creek channels. and one edge area of the river itself