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Ordered a half-dozen dozen Square bills to pull while getting to know Dead Lake and the south end of Crescent. All new water to me so the quicker trolling speeds of crankbaits appealed. I have to say my first impression was the baits we're larger than I had expected. In fact twice as big as I thought they might be. Not complaining, just surprised. Crappie must be more aggressive than I realized. This will be interesting.
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Don't be too surprised, UncleJ .... I've caught Crappie I could hide under my hand ... on Bandit 300's :yikes
And the 255’s that I get from wlure are a bit bigger. You’re teaching me about cranks in FL.
Seeing I don't know better...ill drag the paint off the lot and we will see. Tomorrow will be the first time I target Crappie with intent. Other than bycatch I have Never gone Speck Fishing. I feel like a 10 year old kid the night before opening day of Dove Season..[emoji4]Quote:
Originally Posted by skeetbum
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Trolled 4.5 hours today. Dead Lake, SW Crescent, the Narrows and Haw Creek. Nothing but cranks.
0 Specks.
6 Gar.
4 Mudfish.
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Thats about on par from what I have seen from people pulling cranks on the river system. Some lakes fair better it seem than the St Johns and its connected lakes.
For trolling cranks, I find that it's better to concentrate on bodies of water that have large populations of white crappie. The whites school more in open waters in search of shad. At least that's been my experience.Quote:
Originally Posted by UncleJ
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I haven’t seen a white crappie here ever. I think the crank size would matter, the smaller the better. My suggestion of mixing some jigs into the spread is so that you will know when you go through a productive area. A few passes through an area that gets the jigs bit and no color changes of the cranks produces, gets you closer to your answer.Quote:
Originally Posted by jchag1718
This happens a lot.
Pulling crankbaits for Crappie for only four and a half hours on my first trip ever to Dead and South Crescent Lake hardly qualifies me to even have an opinion on their effect. A observation I can't speak to, in the six hours I spent in the area I marked very little Bait fish. Find the bait, find the fish. Scott who runs Georgia Boys Fish Camp on Dunns Creek told me he wouldn't even bother Speck fishing Crescent this time of year. The young lady who ran the bait shop on Dead Lake said the same yesterday.Quote:
Originally Posted by trypman1
Question concerning pulling crankbaits and jigs at the same time. Are Jigs effective at 2 -2.3 mph?
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Fish are out there and they do eat. Just a tougher bite. I believe spiderrigging really slow in the right place or single poling dense cover would prove productive.
After having had a look around there, I was thinking along the same lines. Saw some good heavy cover with thick veg mat up Haw Creek. Thinking next week I'll spend my time single pole jigging heavy heavy cover in the deeper Creek. Will be hard to leave the hot inshore mangrove snapper bite firing off here, but I really want to learn this Speckled Perch game.Quote:
Originally Posted by huntinslabs
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I pull my crankbaits at 1.5 to 1.8 mphQuote:
Originally Posted by UncleJ
crappie are always there it's only when we limit what we do that it's hard to catch them. those who adapt to conditions and try new things are the ones who ketch them.
That’s what I refer to as “a bag of tricks”. Things don’t work right, what’s next?
I have caught a few on bandit 300 up here in IL. I tried to get into trolling cranks after watching You tube of trolling on Percy priest lake on TN. Also people do it in KY lake. I catch many walleye and whites in Wisconsin 1.5 to 2.3 mph
I just got daiwa Iexa Line counter reels 100 size very small and light. I put those on berkly lighting rod I have got largemouth so far
Reels ordered from cabelas and rods from fish USA. I also have vexan crapoie rods that I may try and I think they are a tougher rod
Last year on cresent I was trolling Southern pro hot grubs on 6# line with 1/16 plain lead pico jigs at .6 to .8. Had eight rods out the back or varying length it was first time and worked well. I like the slower speed and cheaper baits compared to cranks when you hook the brush