Thread: Power trolling roadrunners, tip with minnows??

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))