Thread: Pushing Crankbaits

My thing is that you would be able to see the wiggle of the rod with the weight on the bottom, sometimes, as ScottV calls em, you pick up hitchhikers and don't even know it with the weight in the middle.

I push cranks all the time. No big deal. I use a 3 or 4 oz (depending on how deep I'm fishing) Scott V pushing weight 4-5 feet above a single crank. Sometimes I tie a 1/4 roadrunner and Southern Pro Hot Grub or curly tail of your choice 3' above the crank. The Offshore Tadpole works well both pushing and pulling too.

I use the roadrunner pulling also. They hit the jig about as good as they hit the crank on most days.

BRM

Around here, my crank pushing buds use 2oz weights & a 5ft leader between the crank & weight ... and usually run at ~1.8mph

I've done it with 1/2oz weight & a 2ft leader @ ~1mph ... and caught fish ... but, I was just starting out "pushing" jigs, and simply replaced the jig with a crank (just to see if I could catch anything on them, with my speed limited by my 12V 42lb thrust trolling motor) I was also only running 3 rods.

I used to tie up kentucky rigs with a 4oz bank sinker when I first started, 2ft below swivel, with at least a 3 ft leader to get some separation from the weight. i like the pushing weight scottv makes, still have the original 8 I bought from him a few years ago. It just has less line to get tangled and store really easy.

I started out with KY rig ..you can pull 2 cranks..I liked a bandit on bottom, a smaller floating bait like a Jointed Rapala on top...I seemed to get tangled allot..also 4 or 5 treble hooks swinging in the wind was a bit dangerous to me..but it works . Just use ScottV's weights now

Thanks a bunch for all the input, i truly appreciate it!!

BRM, do you use any weight with the roadrunners or just the RR alone?

G,
I used Pico perch lures long before rattle traps ever came out. They was one of the first lures I ever had, it and heddon chugger or tiny torpedo.