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I have some questions concerning crankbaits, series and possibly brands.
Do you experts prefer to use 300 vs 200, or 350 vs 250? Or vise versa? Or do you use both? Or do you use them all?
From my short experience with them thus far, the 300's seem to be a better solution. Less line, variety of depth.
Am I on to something, or just completely off??
Thanks,
Brian
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300s, well 350s in my case, can fish them from 1 foot deep to 100 feet deep.
200 and 300 bandits,strike king 3xd,wiggle wart,c55,and arkie 350's .A man could get away with deep divers only but I like having some 200's in the boat.Also the strike kings are overlooked by alot of people,but they are becoming one of my favorites
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Ditto, I have a wide variety from
300, 200, c55, and 200 clones, and flicker shad. Kinda like plastics ya never know what they might want. I just add a few every year and the collection grows. I personally have no experience with arkies but I see plenty folks use them.
So, why the 200's? What is your theory??Quote:
Originally Posted by blueball
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like the 200`s when pulling in shallow water cause you have the bait alittle farther away from the boat.I have also experimented running 200`s on one side and 300`s on the other running the same depth and have saw the 200`s out perform the 300`s on certain days.Quote:
Originally Posted by bandchaser
If you get in my boat and look at my cranking rods you will see half of them have a yellow wire tie at the but section.This is for when i`m running the 200 on one side and the 300 on the other,the poles with the yellow wire ties will have the 200`s.:biggrin
I won a contest and got 10 bandit 300. Still have 8 lost 2. Various colors. I fish them shallow and all the war to 16 ft. I have bought some very good looking strike kings that have produced.
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I too have run 200's the same depth as 300's and it seemed that they wanted the 200's more. However, I have 10 times more 300's for the same reasons Rees said above. You can get them to the same depth but with less line out for 300's or 350's.Quote:
Originally Posted by blueball
I run 200's for what stated more line out gets bait further away from boat and I have 500 more to paint [emoji849]
I run whatever size crank I want to whatever depth I want with the aid of an Offshore Tadpole. For shallow fish, a planer is hard to beat. Don't need a ton of line out to keep from spooking the fish. Just run the boards out the side as far away from the boat as you want.
I don't fish clear water often so I don't worry about getting the bait further from the boat, caught fish with 5 foot of line out on a 5 foot rod sticking straight off the side of the boat, kinda crazy to just pick the fish up in the boat when you pick the pole up.
There are days that the 200 out performs the 300, just something about it, but more often as not I can't tell any difference
I would think the difference in the dive lip gives the 200 a different (tighter) wobble.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rees Guide
Brian, sneak into my boat and you will see pretty much every kind of crank bait ever made.
I use 100s,200s, 300s, 250s in Bandits. Strike Kings, Normans, Wiggle Warts, about 8 different Chinese models from some that are 1 1/4" long to c55s, I even have some old Hellbenders folks have picked up for me at yard sales and I've repainted, 4A-6A-8A Bombers,Rattle Traps, if it was made and I can paint it, I'll use it.
My theory is the fish get used to colors, actions, sounds,depths, profiles so I always want to have something totally different to drop over the side to them. My average crappie is typically caught much shallower than folks would imagine. I think most beginners worry far too much about getting baits as deep as possible and pay zero attention to their electronics. 2D is your friend pulling cranks.
I'm on the other end of the thought that the fish get used to a style of crank. With a billion crappie in a lake, I think it just boils down to the action they like better on a certain day. I doubt all of those fish have seen a crank bait of any style, and with a brain the size of a needles point, I doubt they could remember it if they did. [emoji4]
All very good points gentlemen! Are the C55's a version of the 200's or 300's?
I don't have a wallet like BRM's so I might start painting my own.
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The c55s are the ones I use so much that are slightly larger than a 300 Bandit and dive slightly deeper. Secret is they don't always have to be as deep as they will go.
When my wife and I won that KY Lake tournament last Sept we were running c55s 30 feet back. They wanted the big bait and action just not as deep as most folks thought.
I totally agree. For some reason most folks hear the word crankbait and immediately think hunert foot back. I call it dumpster diving for crappie. In most cases all your doing is working yourself to death and aggravating the catfish and goo for no reason. This year is the first time in the last six years that my line counter has seen three digits to set depth.Quote:
Originally Posted by mrdux
Yep, I'm no where near an expert, but I like 200 and 300 combos in post spawn. And go to 300 bandit or 350 Arkies in the summer. I ain't pulling in a hundred fish a day from no more than 60' - 70' behind the boat.. shucks enough work reeling them in that far, I prefer 20' to 50'. I will expand my range on down the road, but right now I ain't fixing something that ain't broke.
A lot of people run crank baits too deep.
I failed to add a couple of brands that I'll keep to myself but I have been doing pretty well on the Arkie 350s at times.
Right now KY lake is in a huge funk on the north end. Me thinks 15 inches of rain a couple weeks back didn't help.Tons of bait and zero current are not a good combination either.
You know us crappie guys aren't prone to excuses.
And it also depends on the lakes you fish, the ones I fish are relatively shallow from summer to spring.. then they rise 20 feet... Lol
I have fished with a lot of great crappie fisherman who pull cranks I mostly single pole but it seemed that the 300 bandit at 50,60 and 70 feet put a ton of fish on the tail gate as far as the 200 don't know all the guys I fished with never used them that I can remember good luck to you and hope you get on em
I use Arkie 220 s to push with and I use 350s to pull with....If I an fishing shallow I sometimes pull 220s just so I can get the bait further away from the boat.
If you had my wallet, you wouldn't buy ANY cranks. LolQuote:
Originally Posted by bandchaser
agreed,but sometimes i will pull them across a point and they will be dragging bottom,lol.The crappie will hammer them in the deeper water on each side of the point,always wonder if the mudd they are stirring up helps the bite:biggrinQuote:
Originally Posted by mrdux
G...What is an Arkie 250...that is a new one on me.
hush.....your not supposed to know about thatQuote:
Originally Posted by KnightShadow10
Somebody let a cat out of the bag....
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Nuttin like a big ole slab with a muddy billed crank hanging out of its mouth~~!!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by blueball
I'm getting the shakes, nervous twitches, and both arms keep trying to set mysterious hook sets!
I gots it bad! Come on weekend!
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