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Very nice!
WTG.....congrats
Very nice indeed!!!!
Great catch and posing! LOL Is this in the deeper water at Cypress or have the moved in yet?
In the channel scattered between 13-15' around 1.8mphQuote:
Originally Posted by LouisianaFishNut
Good job
Nice catch indeed.
They were hitting hard today and a lot of them came to the surface and jumped like bass probably caught a couple dozen dunks too
Just curious. What kind of tackle set up are you pulling cranks with?
I pull 6 cranks
2 - 11' rods
2 - 7'
2 - 5'
and push 4 with Scottv weighs
2 - 11' rods
2 - 6.5
12lb big game solar collector on all rods
Wow! You done good!
When ya hot ya hot. And you r. Nice catch.
Very nice, except too many to clean. :biggrin
WOW!! that's too many hooks in the water for me! Id be hung up on something or untangling lines all day! But looks like you got it pretty well figured out....really nice fish.Quote:
Originally Posted by theygotaeat
Just takes a little practice, we pull 8 and push 2 all the time.
I pull six and push 4
Hey RG are ya'll still cranking? how long can I expect to catch them this way?I seen major caught them cranking in February. What's your opinion?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rees Guide
I have caught pretty good pulling cranks up until Christmas.....Then I switch to spider rigging CrappieLogic gnats with minnows.
Hope you don't mind me picking your brain... but do you have to slow down when water temp gets colderQuote:
Originally Posted by "G"
I don't.....I still pull from 1.6 to 1.8 mph. It wouldn't hurt to try but I just never have. Rees can probably shed some light on this.
i always pull like G 1.6-2mph.Here lately ive been going with someone else and he only doing 1.2-1.5mph and still catching fish.
Thanks G and blue for helping out . I tried mad cow and orange crush for the first time this weekend
Over half the fish came on those two .
At the slower speed are the baits still running same depths with equal line out?
No they will be running shallower.....all the trolling depth charts are figured at 1.8 mph with 10 lb. mono. Attachment 176232Quote:
Originally Posted by theygotaeat
Gave my mad cow to a sweet lady in Illinois. I been pulling at 1.5 most of the summer. As far as slowing down as it gets cooler I don't think its needed, heck most of the time spider rigging they bury the pole in the fall.
Pulled some Arkie's yesterday just to see how deep they would dive, with 50 feet of line out they were running around 7 feet deep.
I don't think it makes much difference G, been pulling a bunch at 1.5 this summer and bumping bottom rite on schedule. That's was with 300s mostly to and they are gonna dive.Quote:
Originally Posted by "G"
Your running arkies on 10 lb mono?
So if I need to slow down I shouldn't need to let out line to maintain same depths
I run everything on ten lb. mono.....Rees uses braid. I am pulling in fairly open water so I don't hang up much.....I don't lose that many cranksQuote:
Originally Posted by theygotaeat
We also use line counter reels.....I am using Okuma MagnaPro 15's
You can pull the small Arkies too....put a half oz. weight about two or three ft. ahead of them and they will run very close to a bandit 300
What G said, I really like the braid. I too pull a lot of open water but had problems with large catfish taking my baits last summer, 10 in one trip. Think I have lost 5 baits all year this year and have pulled through way more cover this summer. 40/10 runs just like the chart says, I also got rid of the linecounters and went to the Depth Hunter by Power Pro, I wont be going back to line counters again.
I had big cat take my mad cow [emoji35] bet I get a hand full next time I switched from braid to big game 12 ...I miss the braid
Are you using spinning reels with braid
Think I paid 130 for 1500 yards of the Depth Hunter, put 200 feet on each reel, using spinning reels now so it fills the spool pretty good. Also before our first tourney this fall I turned it around and had fresh line to start tourneys with, didn't have to completely respool that way.
I have line counter reels for pulling .Sometimes I use 2 spinning reel set ups just a long cast and pull a little off the spool no counting they produce just as good as knowing the amount of line out what's up with that
Why the switch from line counter reels? Do ya'll cast the baits out or put in holder and release
To be honest the switch was unintentual, I had Diawas and wanted the digitals (160 bucks each, they sure do cast sweet). Last fall I sold what I had and went on watch for the digitals to go on clearance and it never happened. Just couldn't pull the trigger on 1600 bucks worth of reels so I ordered the Depth Hunter until I could decide what I wanted to do. I like it and have had a ton of folks in my rig this summer and no one has had trouble using it.
I cast out 90% of the time so the Okumas don't work for me, if you loosen the drag enuff to cast em 100 feet then the spool gets loose in the housing and the line will get between there, what a pain. Also if they aren't FULL then they aren't accurate, I know sometimes that doesn't matter so much but sometimes it does.
To each their own, so far this works for me.
With the depth hunter line it's easy to see the markings as you cast?