Quote Originally Posted by dboone View Post
I really appreciate all the input. We went out this past weekend on Green and tried trolling with cranks for the first time. We were pulling Bandit 300s so we let out around 30-35 ft using planer boards on the outside lines. Although we only tried this method for about 2 hours, we were able to land 2 crappie (both keepers) and 1 22 inch muskie. The kid in my boat was realy excited about the musky. Spider rigging over brushpiles still seems to be best method currently in 14 ft of water.
Hope you released that Muskie !! If you had 2oz of lead up the line from those cranks, and maintained a trolling speed of 1.8mph, out over 30fow, along channel edges, and among schools of Shad ... your 30-35ft of line out would likely have caught you more than 2 Crappie.

... cp