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I live 40 minutes from Harris and Jordan, but don't know if they would be any good for trolling cranks due to white crappie population in those lakes. Any input from anyone? Hopefully I won't need to travel 1.5 hours away every time I wanted to crank.
I go through the pics from the different lakes on here to see if any white
crappie in pics. That is how I picked high rock as my closest lake with white crappie.
You can catch the blacks on crank baits. Use small lures and slow down to .5 to .7 MPH. I push small crank baits up front using 2 OZ trolling weights. These weights are molded on a 12 inch wire with swivel.
Monk
I agree with monk he's got me using cranks when the temperature goes up. I troll Harris
How deep do you troll them? I got Bandit 300's and Arkie 350's.
I troll them bout 12" up from where the fish are
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But I also use the 12' crappie max rods because they can handle the 2oz weights
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tuckertown is full of whites and highrock has a good population especially on the southern end, i catchem in both lakes on cranks
i pull mine, if i wanted to fool with wieghts and go slow id tightline, pulling cranks is a fast in your face rod slaming afair, the point is to catch large scattered suspended fish. moving 1.5 i have covered twice the water that another person has at .7, but u need a lake full of whites for this to work
Which would mean that Badin/Tuckertown is closest lake for me to pull my deep crankbaits...Quote:
Originally Posted by gobbler
badin is a no go, just tuckertown, there are some whites in badin but the blacks are predominate
When the water gets hot and fish are sluggish I push cranks out the front with tight line rods. Going slow only seems to work in hot summer conditions. Right now I agree with Gobbler fast as you can with the equipment you have. High Rock has enough whites to make it work. Tuckertown has good whites but I get that black slime on the baits.