Thread: Anyone pull cranks at Green?

Originally Posted by mrdux

Anybody we know?

I can't remember his name but you two sure favor a lot.

I started trolling crankbaits on Green in 2008 when I lived in Magnolia and it was my home lake. At that point the only other guys I saw pulling cranks were the tight-lipped walleye chasing crew and they weren’t giving out any pointers. Fast forward to today and there are a whole lot of guys that pull or push them in the warmer months. Doug, Rickie and I were very fortunate last spring to narrow down a pattern very quickly on some of my old areas and we easily boated a couple hundred fish in two days of fishing between our two boats using the same general tactics that are working for us on KY Lake. On Green, the fish in open water are pretty migratory-often times they will even move pretty good distances during the course of a single day. Once you start connecting with fish, take note of the pattern and stay with them. Sometimes you just have to grind it out to keep up with the school.

It’s a great lake and I still jump at any chance I can get to get back and troll my old stomping grounds. Looking forward to seeing everyone at another great Spring Fling this year.

Originally Posted by Quackrstackr

I can't remember his name but you two sure favor a lot.

The bottom of Blood River has to be colorful from all the cranks the 2 of us have left there. Blood forced me to go from Navionics to LakeMaster cards.

Just curious mrdux, whats the difference between the 2 that made you change? I'm currently using navionics.

Originally Posted by JLSandusky

Just curious mrdux, whats the difference between the 2 that made you change? I'm currently using navionics.

The accuracy of the Navionics I ran then stinks on Blood and other areas of the mid-lake. Several of the ledges I ran would show 16-20 fow when my 2D would be showing 6-8 feet. Dragging 10 cranks across shallow areas covered with stake beds and brush piles was costing me the price of a new LakeMaster card every few trips. One of them was the trip quackrstackr was mentioning. We lost all the cranks we had tied on when we hit a shallow area with what we think was a submerged tree top.The map showed us to be in 20 feet of water. There were several mystery points and humps that must have disappeared before I got to them.

The LakeMaster cards allow me to set depth highlights, level off-set, and other features I don't use but are available. Of course the LakeMasters are Humminbird specific. I trust their accuracy with my life.

That would probably cause me to say a few bad words! Level offset would be nice. Some lakes I fish can be 30 feet lower at winter pool vs summer. Seems that the eater depths on the maps are mostly done at summer pool. I'll have to keep an eye on the accuracy in the future.

Lakemaster has much more current info than Navionics does, at least on KY. I don't know when Navionics got their data or where they got it but it has been within the last 5 years or so for Lakemaster. I was friends on FB with one of the guys that went lake to lake doing scans for them at one time.

Like Doug said, Navionics shows stuff that silted in long ago and also doesn't show stuff that is definitely not silt (like the 20 ft contour actually only being 5-6 ft deep). Navionics seems to be relying on crowd sourcing new data instead of paying for it. At one time they were asking people to log and upload their sctructure scans for map updates.

Well that stinks. I guess I'll need to be careful if I ever make a trip down there. I would also like a map card that covered the entire S.E. US as mine stops at Tennessee. I'm also wanting to get down to fish with our southern brothers.