Crank baits in Florida

Any y’all pull them down here?
The crank fest thread got me thinking about using them down here.
Don’t know if specs respond to them as well as white crappie do.

I fish north Florida regular. I found the black crappie don't respond to the crank baits as good as whites. Catfish love them.

I've used them with limited success. What I tried were smaller cranks, but the treble hooks were smaller too, so I felt I lost too many while reeling them in trolling. I switched to double rigging jigs.

What slab said for me too.

Thanks guys.
I picked up a few and will try them in some of the deeper spots on the river and see what happens.
I’ll let y’all know.

Cool, let us know. Cause I do like pulling cranks.

Sunshine bass have been known to hit the smaller crankbaits. I have tried them but I seem to always gom up my hooks with some sort of slimy green gunk. Tight Lines.

JJ

JJ, yea the sunnies and Shad will smack cranks pretty good.
Catfish too.
I’m hoping for some success with them but we’ll see.

I like to pull a small rattle trap behind the boat while I long line. Never can tell what you might come up with .

I tried them last year when we came down and didn't do any good.

I had a couple of micro cranks I would tightline with on Kentucky rigs, they would always be one of the top producing baits but u have to cut em off every time you stop fishing to move somewhere else or those tiny trebles would twangle up bad.

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