Thread: Pushing Cranks

Originally Posted by tritonman

I don't think so. I think your weight and line out pretty much control your depth

Scott, Thanks for this thread.
I don't have any experience pushing and am trying to make some sense bout the correlation between weight, lure, speed, line and line out... Let's go with 10# mono, bandit 300, 3 oz weight, 1.7 mph and bout 20 ft line. Any idea how deep they run? And if I want it to go deeper all I need to do is add another oz weight? Or less to shallow up? And will the 200 run about the same as the 300 with all other factors the same?

EZ that exact setup is how I pushed last summer. I could watch the cranks on the bow depth finder at 12' down.

Another way to add the weight like Scott does is adding a 3 way cross line swivel instead of the loop knot. Our water is a little clearer and I use a clear or flouro 4' leader to the crank. I added a splitring & snapswivel to the middle swivel. I can snap the 3 oz weights on/off quickly when moving or when done for the day. Will take a pic next time I run them.

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Thanks, what I'm really trying to understand is what are the main determining factors for controlling the depth. There are places where I know there are crappie and it's only 8-9 fow, and other places that I know they are there also and it's 14-15 fow.. And they are somewhere between say 5 fow and 15 fow and I need to adjust my depth to load em up..

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EZ, you control your depth by simply letting out more line. The 3 oz bank sinkers I use will take it down to 30 ft if you want or you can run them 5 ft deep. At 1.7 mph the line will be running back at around 45 degrees so you'd run around 10 ft of line out from the surface to get around 7 ft of depth.

windstone- You can push using 2 oz instead of 3 but your line will be going back at more of an angle. I started out using 5 oz bank sinkers and the line goes almost straight down but it's a bugger getting a fish in with that much weight. 3 is just a happy medium for me. I use 20 lb braid but 10 lb mono would do fine.

EZ - To make things a little more complicated, think of a right triangle. The top would be where your line enters the water. If your line is going back at 45 degrees, your depth would be 2/3 of the amount of line out.

Now that makes more sense to me. A square plus B square equals C square. Got it..

Dont for get the 2,4,5 and the 6,8,10 rule.

What I have, some 2 oz, 3 oz and 4 oz weights. Jus gonna have to get out on the water and experiment.
good tip on the line angle tho..