using crank baits for crappie?

[mncrappie35]

i was reading an article in in-fisherman about using crank baits for crappie. They say its really good for finding fish and determining the mood of the fish, starting with an aggresive approach first and then going to something else if the fish aren't in the aggressive mood. it also said that you can catch larger fish by using cranks. Does anyone use cranks and if so what kind of success or not have u experienced?

[deathb4disco]

Here's 109 pages of info for you:

http://www.crappie.com/crappie/missi...nks-101-a.html

[catchncrisco]

DBd your signatures are too funny...

[deathb4disco]

DBd your signatures are too funny...

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[EnonEye]

Yep, use cranks and have had consistent large craps take them. Mostly while trolling for saugeye, will pick up craps and you can bet if you go back to the area where you got the hit and fish it slower there will be other adult craps there. Use mostly rattle-traps. This is in a shallow lake, depth of 5 to 7 feet. Nothing better than to be trolling for eyes and pull in a nice crappie.

[stanimals2]

I was bass fishing the other day at a small pond at our club and caught one on a 4 inch rapala ! Suprised the heck out of me, I do have a half a dozen small crank baits that I use for crappie but never dreamed one would hit a bait so large.

[smokercraft]

Try some bandit crank baits

[duckhunter]

We troll crankbaits here all the time in the summer and catch a lot of fish on them. Go to the mississippi crappie fishing forum and read the pulling cranks 101 thread....very useful info. Its a sticky at the top.

[Fisherman_Wantabe]

We troll crankbaits here all the time in the summer and catch a lot of fish on them. Go to the mississippi crappie fishing forum and read the pulling cranks 101 thread....very useful info. Its a sticky at the top.

I knew ya'll Ms boyz would hit this! I'm getting rigged up for this in the warmer months, them Ms boyz got there stuff together on this just watch em Thumbs Up

[jeepguyjames]

We troll cranks in the summer also....bandits are by far the best cranks.....DB4D posted a great link with a ton of good info on it......be careful trolling cranks is addicting....before you know it you will have boxes full of them....