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    Default Changing Trolling Tactics in Summer


    Friends, is there any reason to change trolling tactics as the summer goes on.Does one thing quit working to where you have to try something different.This is my first year spider rigging and what I am doing is working very well and I dont know if for some reason it will stop.
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    I've been having good luck spider rigging as well but am playing around with pulling crank baits. I've heard from a lot of folks on this forum as well in my Mid-west crappie videos that prime time to pull crank baits is during the summer. Not to say you can't have luck spider rigging in the summer it's just something different to try. This is really my first full year spider rigging and pulling crank baits and I'll be doing both this summer so I'll have a better answer come fall.

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    I trolled two poles with Capps and Coleman rigs and minnows saturday and caught a lot of fish.
    Jerry Hamon
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    The hotter it gets. The better it like it for spider rigging.
    They move in the same spot you catch them in the dead of winter.
    I even fish slow like I do in winter time.
    Fishing 25 to 30 ft of water but hooks are around 12 to 16 ft.
    Pete

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    Quote Originally Posted by ShilohRed
    The hotter it gets. The better it like it for spider rigging.
    They move in the same spot you catch them in the dead of winter.
    I even fish slow like I do in winter time.
    Fishing 25 to 30 ft of water but hooks are around 12 to 16 ft.
    Pete
    you been spying on me?? Looks like my tactics.
    Pulling cranks works in summer because the crappie are suspended in open waters chasing shad...well ambushing shad. they are lazy ya know..just like me

    "If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles." ~Doug Larson

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    Quote Originally Posted by FalconSmitty
    you been spying on me?? Looks like my tactics.
    Pulling cranks works in summer because the crappie are suspended in open waters chasing shad...well ambushing shad. they are lazy ya know..just like me
    Lazy now that is me also.:D
    Pete

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