Thread: Crankin Ky Lake

Originally Posted by ifish

Have you all tried tying on your hooks with 6# test line and doing away with the snap?

I haven't seen that done, Buddy.

While I want to save all the baits I can, I can see using the line to tie the hooks to the bait as a nightmare for getting yellows, catfish, bass and other trash fish off the bait. I am guilty most times of taking the pliers and grabbing the shank of the hook and just shaking those fish off the bait.

Doing that with mono on the hook means I'm spending time retying constantly. Spending time occupied by repairing baits is time I'm not paying 100% attention to the trolling motor and the boat heading. Inattention to that is more hang-ups and more lost baits as well as lost fishing time.

I guess it's a pick your poison deal. I hate losing baits as much as the next guy, just not enough to keep me from being out there risking them to the bottom.

Great job mrdux.

Why will a regular lite wire single hook not work on cranks or will it we catch and release most fish when pulling cranks and they can get pretty torn up sometimes .

Originally Posted by ccollins

Why will a regular lite wire single hook not work on cranks or will it we catch and release most fish when pulling cranks and they can get pretty torn up sometimes .

Mine are mostly released to the ice in the livewell. I think a single hook would work but your hook-up ratio would have to be much less than with a pair of trebles. I'm amazed when a fish hits one of my cranks so hard it almost yanks the rod out of the holder but it doesn't hook itself.

Originally Posted by mrdux

Mine are mostly released to the ice in the livewell. I think a single hook would work but your hook-up ratio would have to be much less than with a pair of trebles. I'm amazed when a fish hits one of my cranks so hard it almost yanks the rod out of the holder but it doesn't hook itself.

Dux, I'm starting to think that some of those hard hits that pull the pole way back and then gone are actually dragging cranks over Asian carps. whatchoo think?

Originally Posted by BIGBADDAD

Dux, I'm starting to think that some of those hard hits that pull the pole way back and then gone are actually dragging cranks over Asian carps. whatchoo think?

It's possible that some of them are. I've foul hooked several of the Asians. A while back I brought up a scale the size of a golf ball on one missed strike. Ask Buffalo13 about one I hooked a couple of years back. It was either an Asian or an underwater jet-ski.

I still think several are game fish that got lucky and didn't get hooked by a face full of red hooks.

I took my wife out Sunday afternoon for her first trolling trip. She wore my butt out!! We did hook several fish that stayed on for 1/2 the trip to the boat then just came loose.