Thread: Pulling Cranks 101

I use the size 6 red treble hooks. Gamagatsu and VMC both make a good one. The VMC are a little cheaper. Also, I think bass pro brand has them.

Targeted whites yesterday, but come up with mostly blacks. Pulled for 10 hours trying to figure this cranking out. Had a great time with a good friend. Black & Pank were the best colors. Line counters and that chart helped on the learning curve! Thanks again. Maybe some more pics over the next few months.



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Not bad at all man. not bad at all

Nice!

Wow, it took me 2 days to read this entire thread, thanks to maj for getting it started. I already picked up some bandits and slab hammers at the local Dicks, the bandits here were 3.99 each and the hammers were 4.49. Already purchased the 8 and 12 foot b&m trolling rods, now to get me some line counters, now help me with this. I watched one of the vids don talked about and they had the reels out past the holders, is this the norm, I usually let the real seat sit up against the front of the rod holder when I longline, but I am using spinning reels. I can already see that I might as well buy a boat for this rather than trying to get mine ready, it is a fish&ski that I use for the family thing also. I don't really have a good place to mount the big sonar unit because of the windshield, and the way my trolling motor mounts on the boat it is removable although I never do. Wow.I could go on and on but I do look forward to giving this a shot and going from there, it may work and it may not, we will see, Thanks to all who have contributed to this thread and keep it coming.

Oh 1 more question, I was looking on BP site and am wondering, will a 12 volt #55 lb thrust work, I know this was talked about but I am too tired to read thru again to find it, I don't want to buy a 24 volt if a 12 will work, although I have a 24 volt foot controlled now, so the parallel thing wouldn't be a problem, already have the batteries and they are 31 series, thanks again for helping us newbies get this right.

Well Mr Quik, have you ever heard the term the bigger the better. Well, it definitely applies here. The larger the voltage of your trolling system the longer you can stay on the water trolling. For example a 12v trolling motor with a group 27 battery you can troll for X amount of time, use a group 31 battery you can troll for X+X amount of time. Now jump up to a 24v or 36v system and you continue to up your time on the water. Example..yesterday I trolled cranks for about 3 1/2 hours and when I got home and plugged back in I still had 75% battery left now that I have gone to the group 31 batteries. Hope this helps some.

I pulled cranks along side of Tritonman yesterday. I have a heavy glass boat and had 3 of us in the boat. I use a 24v TM with IPilot. Like T-Man said, we pulled for 3 1/2 hrs and I had plenty left in my first set of batteries. Yea, I have two sets of class 31 batteries in my boat just in case I want to pull cranks all day. I have two female TM plugs so when I deplete one pair of batteries, I can switch to the other set by changing to the other plug. May be a little overkill, but I'm ready if need be. Lol