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Spent the afternoon catching bass. Not the first crappie , we marked fish all afternoon. Black with a Crome belly was the bait of the day. We went to two areas known to produce crappie in the colder months to start out with. Not even a dink ??? We will try some different areas next week and report back. Oh I lost 4 cranks due to hang ups .
Attachment 168595Attachment 168596Attachment 168597 Had two bass on one crank one time.
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That's pretty cool!!!!!!
a guy i know and his friend did this at same time. one of them had 2 on and the other had 3 on.
Those spots at martin are some gready fish. One always trying to take the bait away from the other lol.
I hope to be out of the garden and back at martin by the first of the month.After reading more about pushing cranks i hope to give it a try.
Bama S, don't get discouraged. Pulling cranks is an art. Much like learning to feel the thump when you're single pole fishing. Keep trying and explore new spots (not the green carp). Before you know it you'll have it dialed in. Now I'm headed out the door to go pull a few in our tournament this morning. Best of luck to you, superfly.
Go get em superfly. Hope y'all catch a. Bunch. We will keep trying until we find them. I've never fished in the summer so I have to locate the crappie first then ill tweak the catching part.
Mite go in the AM and try to redeem myself. Ha ha. Do not like gettn skunked on the crappie even though we had a lota junk fish.
Now thats the way to fish..
Flooding this AM, rescheduled for Thursday morning. Redi to get back on the water and give it a whirl.
I've cranked lake Martin before. Put in at the church and cranked the area in the square. Got some interesting sonar returns at the old house foundation. No hits from fish. Got into a wazoodle of white bass north a few miles of the picture. Wore them out on some spinning rods counting down crappie jigs. No crappie were caught in several days of fishing, but a pretty lake.
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Dang it mannnn, that was on my list to try that area. I've had peeps tell me they caught some single poling in that area. I have my doubts about crankn on Martin now but I've got four more places I'm Gonna try.
Not all lakes are easy cranking lakes but if you figure it out it will be worth while. Go to the levy when all else fails, no telling how many get caught off the levys over here.
Yep Rees , that's my next trip . Headed to the dam this week. Gonna single pole a spot then head to dam. And try em out. On my first outing I realized I was going from 15 fow to 50 fow in some areas pretty quick. Not as consistant as you guys have in sippi. Plus I hit a trot line and lost 3 bandits at once. Lot of this on Martin.
You using braid, will save you money in the long run?
I would also try to go to places that produce more White crappie than Blacks. Seem the whites are much more willing to hit the cranks vs the blacks.
I thought the very same thing Bob D, but on my last outing three of the four crappie I managed were blacks.
I have yet to catch a black on a crank. A fair number of whites. Hope PW1 that I can find some of those foolish blacks because I know they way out number the whites where I fish! Lol
You'll know when you catch a black with 100 foot of line out, he aint coming up!!!!! I catch very few blacks but have one lake we fish from time to time that is mostly black in it, wont catch a bunch but what we catch is fun!!!!
Thnx for the tips. Gonna try it again in the AM.
Just so you know, I also cranked around the first island north and west of the Dam. Never a hit there either. Only way we could buy a bite was single poling and they were all bass. You can't tell me cranking won't work there. I think I would go to light colors. The only problem with Lake martin is that is so clear. I bet the fish can see the bottom of the boat at 20ft deep. I know we could see bass holding on structure way deep.Quote:
Originally Posted by BAMA S
We did run up pretty close to the island just to try some shallower water. I think on the west end of the island it was a little ways out till it dropped off. On the north end of the island, I am thinking we could get pretty close to the island and still have pretty deep water.
Do yall have a thermocline over there, they may just be flat out deep?!!! Might have to weight em down to get to them. When we were over there several years ago I was surprised how clear it was, may be a factor for sure.
I had a pearl on the other day for four hrs and never got a hit on it. The solid black and black and chrome belly were the hot colors.
Try some hot pink and pink silver sparkle
May have to try out some planer boards.
What diff would planer boards make?
You probably got it nailed. You could catch those fish high in the water column without spooking them with the boat.Quote:
Originally Posted by BobB