Quote Originally Posted by johndeere5045 View Post
my advise is to not invest a pile of money on special equipment until you figure out if you like this type of fishing. Plenty of videos on You Tube of doing this. From what I have read and found out, cranking really works better if your lakes has white crappie. I have not figured out the reasoning for this just yet. Im new to cranking this summer & have had very little success. But we have mostly Black crappie in our lakes in south Alabama.
I think it's "more" of a White Crappie technique, simply because White Crappie tend to roam in open water more/more often than Black Crappie (which tend to be more cover oriented most of the time). Now, Black Crappie "will" hit a crank, but it's more likely to not be out in the open water flats where the White Crappie roam during those warm water periods.