Okatibbee fishing question

[mattp]

Hi I just got in from offshore and have 2 weeks at home. I am wanting to do some crank pulling at Okatibbe. Will all of the rain we are getting make a difference in the fishing as far as pulling cranks?

Im new to crank pulling at got the fever, any tips tricks or advice is greatly appreciated.

mattp

[BigRiverMarine]

All you need to know at Okatibee is Follow ScottV.

[mattp]

haha thats what I've heard! I was hoping he would throw some input my way. Ive been fishing Okatibbe for some years now and always had really good luck with my buddy trolling jigs in the late winter and spring. Im just getting in to crank pulling and I really like what I see so far...

[SteveJ]

Okatibbee creek runs north/south mainly and you can pick it up say 100 yds out from Collinsville ramp and generally it goes south to the first pole out from the corp HQ landing, just head south from Collinsville landing and if they are on the creek you can pick some up. But if they are not on the creek and most of the time of year now they will not be strong move over to the east 200/300 yds and head back north to Collinsville ramp and repeat moving over 200/300 yds each time. General guidelines, usually in the hot summer they seem to just follow the schools of shad more than staying on stumps on the creek but this is fishing so you know how it goes. So far they have not got on a strong flats summer pattern and are very scattered, YMMV. Maybe Scott will come on with his thoughts.

[mattp]

Thanks! Some great stuff there... im going to try to spend a fair amount of time with it for the next couple of weeks weather permitting

[mattp]

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