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I am going to give crank baits a try and have a question. It seems most people pull cranks vs push them from the posts I read. Is there an advantage to pulling vs pushing? One advantage for pushing would be easier to control depths or so it seems to me. Any advice, thoughts or opinions are welcome. Thanks in advance!
Yes depth control is a little easier....also you can make tighter turns. Attachment 243991
The only advantage I can think of for "pulling" cranks ... is that you CAN stop your forward motion, if not using any weight on your line or lipless cranks, and not send your cranks to the bottom or the cover that you're trolling over.
Most around my neck of the woods "push" & "pull" with at least 2oz of weight ahead of the crank. That gives them a shorter length of line out to reach a specific depth, than without weights ... but, at the expense of potentially losing a crank to a hangup or large fish. They're also less likely to have a fish come off, if lightly hooked, by not having to reel in 100+ feet of line.
I think pulling has a better catch ratio than pushing. On a limit of 30 fish per boat I might get 2 or 3 pushing. I believe its from the boat spooking them.