Thread: Pulling Cranks 101

dont be skeet to try different depts and amount of line out and here in tn i troll till i catch a fish and will keep running over the same spot using the bread crumb trail on my fishfinder,and sometime i catch a couple fish every pass once i find them.when i first started i would troll the edge of the river channel and only caught 1 crappie in a month ,and then i started working creeks (channels and flats)and started catching fish and most fish are now crappie.another thing i use the 200series most of the time when most people said use 300 and now they are what i prefer.dont know ur waters but i have been catching fish in 10-12ft of water with 40-80ft of line out

Originally Posted by quikcarl61

Ok what am I doing wrong, I have tried this 4 times now and have yet to even see a crappie. I have caught catfish, stripers, white perch til I'm tired of em, but have not seen or heard or smelled, or cooked a crappie doing this yet, what am I doing wrong, helppppppppppppppppppp

I have fished from 9 to 16 feet based on the charts in this thread, I have used bandit 200's and 300's all different colors, not sure but think I may be pulling them out of their mouths, I have had hits and the fish didn't stay stuck, not sure

u using new or used baits,i bought a bunch of my baits used and was losing alot of fish earlier this year and put new hooks on and it changed everything ,started catching again

Originally Posted by quikcarl61

I have fished from 9 to 16 feet based on the charts in this thread, I have used bandit 200's and 300's all different colors, not sure but think I may be pulling them out of their mouths, I have had hits and the fish didn't stay stuck, not sure

Originally Posted by E-Z Poleholder

I grew up in Arkansas and what they call Crappie here in MS we called White Perch there. Soooooo, my question is: you said 'I have caught catfish, stripers, white perch til I'm tired of em'. What is the difference in NC? or here for that matter??
Aslo, maybe just me, but when I catch a bunch of cats, I reel in a few feet until they quit so much. I feel I have a better chance in finding the ones I'm looking for..

People call drum white perch in KY, and drum LOVE crawfish colored Bandits...

they are all new and I replaced the back trebles with the red, don't lose any of the other species I hook up so I am not sure

Lots of people try to set the hook on a bite, which rips the hooks out of the soft crappie mouth. Try just picking up the rod and reeling when ya get a bite

Thats what I do Mo, I never set the hook because I figured with the speed I was trolling they set themselves.

Can someone save me some time searching threads? I wanted to know if anyone removes one of the treble hooks on their crank baits. I was pulling them yesterday and I did not like the damage the upper hook was doing to the fish. I was thinking of going with only the rear hook. I enjoy pulling cranks but do not like the damage done to fish that I am releasing. (only keep bigger crappie)