cedar creek pulling cranks

Well, finally got lucky and got a day off work. Went to cedar to try my luck at pulling cranks. Ended up having 8 keepers, 7 shorts, 10 bass, 5# cat and a bunch of stripe. Was a successful day for me, was my first time actually catching a decent amount of fish. Caught them on the edge of creek channels in about 30ft of water, cranks were anywhere from 60ft to 150ft behind the boat. Didn't really seem to matter how far back no depth was better than the other to me. When the shad balls would cover the screen we would catch something. Best colors were Sardis shad and solid pink.

Glad you got a chance to go .good report glad you caught some fish.

Glad you had a good day. What cranks were you using? Bandits? Arkies? Thanks

Thanks, it was a nice change catching some crappie during the hotter months. Was using Bandit 300 cranks.

You did good,glad you got to go.

Also while trolling I heard a big splash, turned around and a big doe had jumped into the water. Soon after I seen 2 more splashes one was a German Shepard and the other was a black lab. Not your typical deer dogs. The deer was long gone by the time they swam across the lake. Attachment 212786

Great report....love the deer pic

Good deal, glad you got a chance to get out after them, sounds like a very productive trip.

Glad to hear that you got on them. Seeing the doe was a plus. Hate it was being chased by dogs. Irresistible dog owners really make me mad.

Thanks for the report, been venturing down to cedar since July doing pretty good on crappie since this is my first year in the water over 11 years and first time catching crappie in the summer. If you don't mind I have a hard time with my speed. What seems to be the best speed for pulling crank baits?
thanks

1.5 - 1.8 good for me

Which Cedar Creek are you talking about/what lake?

If you're catching fish I would imagine that you got the speed about right. Just my opinion.

I just use my motor instead of trolling motor. I tried anywhere from 1.5-2.2 according if I was going with the wind or against. Didn't seem to matter the day I was there. Like I said when the graph would show a ton of bait fish we works start catching them. The place I was fishing was Cedar Creek reservoir close to Russellville

I've always heard about the bass fishing in that lake, glad to hear some good crappie are there too.

Went this morning to cedar creek and did pretty good, ended up with 20 nice crappie. This was our best trip so far with crank baits over half was 12" nice ones. Had to release dozen or so 8" crappie. They were hitting anything white or with chartreuse stripe.

Thanks for help with mph, I forgot to put with my update I ran with trolling 1.4-1.8, then motor 1.9-2.1.....Had success with all speeds.

Man thats a good day fishing. Hopefully I will be able to get back again before too long. Good report

Yesterday was another nice day, got to take my 9 year old grandson and we had a blast. Caught 19 nice slabs and poor little fellow had 4 big crappie get off right at the boat. He also landed a few nice bass. Priceless day!
Solid white with red hooks!

Catching any of those spotted bass with the cranks? I can only imagine how much fun some of those spots would be on a trolling rig, but then again some of my biggest tangles come as a result of a bass getting in the lines! lol

The day I went the bass we caught were mostly spots. They were a hand full on the 14' rods