Thread: Article: Pushin Cranks

Nice mess of fish

Nice catch, and thanks for showing your rig for pushing those cranks ," a picture is worth a thousand words"

Nice fish and set up.

What's your speed when you push like that?
also if you're presenting your bait at 7 feet, do you let out 7 feet or do you have to account for the crankbait diving any at all?

Wow! Nice crappie. Thanks for sharing the pushing cranks report and pictures.

Nice, great day!

It will vary from day to day, and sometimes even from early morning to mid morning.

this particular day 1.5 mph 6am till round 8:30 then they wanted it faster. ended the morning at 2.2 mph

But trip before this was 2.1 to 2.5 all morning.

Originally Posted by nccater

What's your speed when you push like that?
also if you're presenting your bait at 7 feet, do you let out 7 feet or do you have to account for the crankbait diving any at all?

If I was gonna target fish at 7 ft deep @ 1.5 mph pushing I would let out
around 8ft on 4 rods and 9 ft on other 4 and let the fish tell me what they like, then adjust accordingly.
I use 4 ft leaders under 3oz of weight. I am guessing the bait to run 12-16 inches under the weight.

If your traveling quicker and you want to stay at 7 ft will have to let more line out to reach target depth.
more speed will cause more line angle.