Road Runner?

[muzzy125acc]

Yes .5

["G"]

.5 is slow....but .2 works even better

[muzzy125acc]

Thanks

[Tony from Oak Point]

They are great to pitch around timber, especially when you are wanting to catch LMB too.

[skiptomylu]

Now if I was going to spider rig then much slower that I stated for longline trolling. With longline trolling on this lake has always been fishing over Hydrilla and the speed needed is as I posted or it will be hung on Hydrilla all the time and don't ever remember catching any crappie with grass hanging off of it.

Have had lots of guys try the longline trolling only to find it works. For me this is a one pole method holding the rod all the time and only if you have another person in the boat would you need another rod where spider rig fishing is a lot different and is many rods spread out in rod holders and also going a lot slower. I don't know how shallow spider rigging works, but long line fishing you can get plenty shallow for spring fishing.

For me spider rigging would be something I would try after the spawn or possible pre-spawn while they are still deep enough to pass over then and fishing straight down for them. Now maybe someone that spider rigs can add something or even correct me since I don't do that kind of fishing!

I don't have anything aginst spider rigging, it's just I like one pile and I catch all I want doing this!

[CrappiePappy]

Muzz ... anytime I (longline) troll a Roadrunner, I drop it over the side of the boat & step on the trolling motor pedal ... and watch to see if the blade is spinning. If it is, at whatever setting I have the TM set on, then I cast it back a good casts distance & let out/take in as much line as needed to get the RR to stay just above the bottom about a foot. This was all before I had a GPS DF ... so I had no idea how fast I was actually going. But, 99% of the time I'm using a RR ... I'm casting it & retrieving at a steady, moderate pace. I mostly use the marabou version, but do have some with plastics (& a handful of plain bodies).
Love me some Roadrunners ... & like I've said before, if I took away all the fish I've caught on a RR, I wouldn't have caught HALF the fish I've caught over the last 4 decades !!

... cp