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    Default KY Lake 4-24-16 Wife's 1st crank trip of the year


    My wife lost a very dear friend and co-worker Friday and has been struggling with it. I told her last night she needed a crankbait trip to help her feel better. It was cool and foggy as we headed the 8 miles to my favorite ramp. We launched and only ran a couple hundred yards to our starting point.

    She got one of the 1st crappie of the day;



    We ended up a short trip with 10 keepers, a 16 inch sauger, one keeper LMB, and kept a couple pig channel cats. The lake got rough but as the weather warmed up, the lake lice got out like it was 4th of July. We had a large time. Now if I can just get her to remember the netting technique I spent all last summer teaching her. It takes years off my life to see her bring in a big crappie with the crankbait tangled in the net and the fish dangling below it. She'll get there.

    BTW, every fish we caught were on custom painted cranks. The John Deere green was big today. We found a bunch of pre-spawn females on a 14 foot flat next to deep water but the channel cats ran us off of it.
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    Very nice!!

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    Do you use side planner boards, or longline them cranks?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kevmc View Post
    Do you use side planner boards, or longline them cranks?
    I pull cranks when my wife is along. I have Opti flag boards that I use some when by myself.

    If I had tried to run boards today, they would have been run over by tri-toons and green carp glitter boats at least 20 times today.
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    I'm glad you were able to make her smile today!
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    Good job....on the fish....and making her smile
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    Sounds like a fine day!!! Good to hear the crankbait bite is starting.


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    Congrats on a awesome looking day. Those look like some nice fillets.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mrdux View Post
    I pull cranks when my wife is along. I have Opti flag boards that I use some when by myself.

    If I had tried to run boards today, they would have been run over by tri-toons and green carp glitter boats at least 20 times today.
    He wasn't talking about me....I have a witness i wasn't out there on the water today!!
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    Nice work as usual. How does she like the boat?



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