Longline Trolling

An old gent told me when I first moved to Tennessee that when you find small fish you need to make small changes to find the bigger ones. He asked me if I had ever been to a public playground. You never see the Grandparents in the middle of things with the kids, but they are close by sitting on the edge, keeping an eye on things. Food for thought.

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Originally Posted by Bert

Took the advice given here and a much better average size yesterday. Went with 3" twister tails and a 1/8 head and caught 22 with only 7 dinks. Ran a Bandit 200 and a flicker shad with on luck, thinking they need to ran faster than 1.1mph. Number were down but the size was up, thanks again.

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I start at 1.5 and go up to 2. Most of time I run at 1.8 Start casting ur cranks 2-1/2 boat lengths and keep the tips low . I use 200's a lot , I like to have around 75 feet of line out. The deeper the fish are the more line you need out . Just my 2 cents good luck

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Originally Posted by skeetbum

An old gent told me when I first moved to Tennessee that when you find small fish you need to make small changes to find the bigger ones. He asked me if I had ever been to a public playground. You never see the Grandparents in the middle of things with the kids, but they are close by sitting on the edge, keeping an eye on things. Food for thought.

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Great analogy

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Originally Posted by skeetbum

An old gent told me when I first moved to Tennessee that when you find small fish you need to make small changes to find the bigger ones. He asked me if I had ever been to a public playground. You never see the Grandparents in the middle of things with the kids, but they are close by sitting on the edge, keeping an eye on things. Food for thought.

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amen- same with all critters

until last year if you told me you could catch a crappie trolling at 2.5 to 2.8 I would have said you were nutz. I buddy took me out and said he was trolling for walleye but we will get alot of crappie, to which i laughed. Well he put on some cranks about the size of a flicker shade size 9 and started around the lake at 2.8mph and man oh man was he right. We put 20 in the boat along with a few walleyes, in about 4 hours with the smallest about 11" and a couple of the biggest were 14's, we never had to throw back a single small one. Ever since thats how I have been catching my crappies, bandit 300's about 35 to 75 feet back depending on how deep they are @ 2.5 to 2.8 mph.

My advice go BIG and speed up!!!