For me, and I have some shoulder mobility issues, the trolling weights would cause me to lose fish will trying to land by hand at the boat. The weight/head shake of the thrashing fish against the trolling weight would throw the crank out. Upon switching to using net lost far fewer fish. Use net all the time now on all crappie and can't tell you how many times when in net the cranks comes out but the net has them. For some reason I cannot beat a catfish or yellow bass off a crankbait.

Doug is correct on the retrieve technique. Good advice. Get to top and maintain steady pull retrieve to the boat and net.