Power trolling roadrunners, tip with minnows??

Can't say for sure, I guess it just depends on the mood the fish are in that day. Few weeks ago before I dusted off the cranks I was catching limits each trip just power trolling with road runners with strollr's or curly tail plastics. I had minners in the boat and would tip a few with minners and the others without the first two trips, caught fish both ways, I just closed the minner bucket and didn't fool with them cause I didn't see the need to. I did notice a very slight increase of keeper to short ratio with the minner tipped road runners, I chalk that up to a larger presentation presented. Also, it would depend on the lake, I know two of the big 4 lakes this time a year that I wouldn't hesitate to leave the minners at the baitshop, the other two not so sure. Of course it's cranking time for me now, if I got to tip cranks with minners then that's just where I draw the line :Rofl

Im with snubby on the bigger presentation - bigger fish when power trolling. However you will still catch the occasional dink on a large jig or crank!

I have never tried bare roadrunner with minnow. Always had some kind of plastic with tail action and or Ziptails. Maybe have to try sometime but i would want big minners! I'm with Snubby bigger profile better quality of fish.

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Originally Posted by Speck

Our best luck power trolling last weekend came off plain roadrunner heads tipped with Minnows


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Do you still just hook them through the lips?

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Originally Posted by Jwater

Do you still just hook them through the lips?

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Yes


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I push all summer with a big curly tail and no minnows. I'm trying to get as big a profile as a crankbait though.

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Went this morning pushing cranks on three 20ft cane poles. A first for this fisherman, and let me tell you, those poles are taking some getting used to. My 12 footers are much lighter, but I'm digging the extra 8 feet. But, I had twelve keepers and a ton of short fish after three hours. My fourth pole was set up with double jigs, no minnows. It caught the most fish of all the poles. It did have two jigs on it, though, and a lot of what it caught were throwbacks. Although, it did bring in a few keepers too.

My question for you professional crank-pushers (non-drug related of course) is: Does the crank run below the weight or behind it? I was curious about my depth, not wanting to stick one of those expensive rascals in a treetop, so I erred on the side of caution and ran a little bit shallower than I would've liked. I think I'd found some bigger fish if I'd went deeper with the cranks. That's where the jigs found some nice ones. So which is it?

Below or behind or does speed dictate the answer?

((edit...sorry about hijacking the Roadrunner thread, but I was using Roadrunners on one pole so I'm only half-jacking it))

We did best Power Trolling straight minnows on a gold hook yesterday at Butla. Problem was we had 8 rigs break when the big fish hit it. Not sure why but my partner tied his first rigs and they broke. Bad spool of line or something. Had over 15lbs Friday there on 7 and never broke a rig that I had tied with the same line, but a different spool, and the Fish Were Still There. When fishing for 10-12 Big bites a day there’s no coming back in a tourney if ya lose 7-8 of em.

We used jigs tipped with minnows Friday but they wanted a smaller presentation yesterday for some reason. Tried jigs/minnows, straight jigs, RR heads with a straight minnow and a hook with straight minnows. The fish told us what we needed to do.

Remember this when switching Presentations/Baits, You Must Use The Changed Bait on BOTH of the drops on your rig. Lots of guys change the TOP bait only. That won’t give you an accurate tell because most of the fish are always caught on the Bottom Bait.

Oh yea, some days it doesn’t matter what you do. They just won’t bite. [emoji4]


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Problem was we had 8 rigs break when the big fish hit it. Not sure why but my partner tied his first rigs and they broke. Bad spool of line or something.


Are you using beads above and below the weight?


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Originally Posted by BigRiverMarine

We did best Power Trolling straight minnows on a gold hook yesterday at Butla. Problem was we had 8 rigs break when the big fish hit it. Not sure why but my partner tied his first rigs and they broke. Bad spool of line or something. Had over 15lbs Friday there on 7 and never broke a rig that I had tied with the same line, but a different spool, and the Fish Were Still There. When fishing for 10-12 Big bites a day there’s no coming back in a tourney if ya lose 7-8 of em.

We used jigs tipped with minnows Friday but they wanted a smaller presentation yesterday for some reason. Tried jigs/minnows, straight jigs, RR heads with a straight minnow and a hook with straight minnows. The fish told us what we needed to do.

Remember this when switching Presentations/Baits, You Must Use The Changed Bait on BOTH of the drops on your rig. Lots of guys change the TOP bait only. That won’t give you an accurate tell because most of the fish are always caught on the Bottom Bait.

Oh yea, some days it doesn’t matter what you do. They just won’t bite. [emoji4]




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Probably too hard of a hookset!!!!!LOL