Attachment 66419 Cause outside of 3 or 4 crappie, this is what I caught all morning.....I guess I aint picky
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Attachment 66419 Cause outside of 3 or 4 crappie, this is what I caught all morning.....I guess I aint picky
I should say I caught several cats....stayed busy till it got hot, left round 1pm
were you pulling crankbaits?
No I started out, spider riggin minners...I'm almost to the point of paying one of you guys to peek over your shoulder at how to pull or cranks..I've never done it. I bought some from BPS a couple of years ago but have not even taken them out of the package. Back to the story, I had my spider rig out and was fishin 18' water and was going catching those hybids 6 at a time right off the bat. Got tired of feeding them so I moved back where I've been fishing the last couple of weeks, put the rig back out and 3lb cat hit...this went on for bout an hr...caught 6 or 7 more and 2 or 3 crappie(biggest 14"). 2Weeks ago I busted one of my poles on a cat down there, so I put up my spider rig and broke out a bobber and catfish pole and sat there till bout 1 tossing minnows up by the bushes doing it "old skewl". I had a blast.....I guess I'm easy to please. Didn't just kill em, but stayed busy...prolly caught 20 or so...
its all fun...I like every kind of fishing
Have you read this? http://www.crappie.com/crappie/missi...nks-101-a.html
Yep...been reading most of the forums on cranking. I'm gonna give it a shot in the next couple weeks.
I love it....only way to fish in the summer
You push em or pull em? My poles are not trolling poles and it'd a trial to see if theyd support the weight it would take to keep the cranks down pushing. Dont have the $$ to get another set of cranking poles....
When I started out I didn't have the poles so I used two of my old bass rods and pulled one out each side of the boat. Nowdays It depends on the lake.... some times I just pull six out the back....sometimes I push six or 8 off the front, and sometimes I pull 4 and push 4 at the sametime.
When you can get some B'n'M pro trollers they are great get lengths where you can keep 4 ft. separation when you are pulling. I use a 14 and a 10 out each side at the back and 2 8 footers straight out the back most of the time. Pushing off the front you can fan them out and use all the same length
What "G" is telling you is correct. You don't have to spend a lot of money buying rods and reels. All it takes is rods with enough length seperation (4ft as G says), and the right baits. Try it with the bare minimum to see if you like it, then go from there. Good luck.Quote:
Originally Posted by csndgrss
And of course some way to measure the line you have out .