Thread: TOLEDO BEND

Originally Posted by Route U

Hmmmm...... where did you put in at and what area did you fish? I would have spent most of my time on the creek/river channels fishing structure. I love pulling cranks but that would be a tall task with all of that submerged structure.

U

We Launched out of Huxley Bay. We fished in that bay, 1 Bay south of there, and 1 more Bay south of there.

We pulled crankbaits on the main Lake in the channel from Huxley Bay to those other bays pretty much. Used bandit 300's. I troll heavy timber frequently. Have learned to slow the speed down from 1.2-1.5. If I get hung up pull the pole out of the rod hold and flip the switch and just let a lot of line out with loose tension. 8/10 the bait will float up off of the structure its hung on. I have learned it is usually the lip that gets wedged in the structure and not the hooks hooking it. Those hooks lay back flat to the bait and dont dangle while it moving. And that big lip on the 300's block the hooks from oncoming structure like a boxer using his shoulder to defend his chin. Its important that you use a 300 for that big lip. 100's and 200's will stay hung.

There definitely was alot of timber there! We got hung some but not as much as I thought I would have. But we never lost a crank. Also never caught a fish cranking hahahahahaha!

most of that far east stuff is really good in the cold months ...
summer can be a bear here to ketch crappie ....
they get tough to find at times and often hunker down so tight on cover you cant even see them on the graph ...