Quote Originally Posted by gabowman View Post
The rods straight off the back of the boat should be positioned with the tips about two feet apart. Continue doing this as far as you can with the rods you have. This will tell you how many rods you can run with what you have. My longest rod is 14' and I troll pulling 14 rods (7 on each side of the motor).

Pulling jigs and pulling cranks are two different things. With jigs you should be pulling from .7 mph to a max of around 1.3 mph. Most trollers use anywhere from 4# test to 8# test, with 6# test being the norm. When pulling cranks I believe the target speed is @ 2.0 mph. Also, with cranks, you'll need a lot heavier gear so you can use spiderwire so hopefully you wont loose many of your lures ($$$). Alot of people that are pulling cranks will use line counter baitcasting reels with stiffer rods when doing this. Hope this helps...
Thanks GBM...what keeps the fish from getting tangled up being so close when you get one on, don't they get buck wild when they get hooked?