JandSCattleCo
07-20-2013, 10:20 PM
Got everything together to start teaching myself to troll crankbaits for crappie. OH BOY. I have my driftmasters mounted up front so I started out with just the cranks (bandit 300s). Long lined them out the side. Nothing. I don't have line counters so I was going on a wing and a prayer to see how far back they were. Did that for some time with no success.
Then I tried the rigs for pushing them off the front. I got these from a guy off crappie.com, and I like the idea a whole lot. It's a rig with a swivel built into a 3 oz weight, with a leader going to a quick change. Hook the rig to your line, crankbaits to the quick change, and due to the weight, as long as your going where the line is at a 45 degree to the pole / water, its going to be 2/3 the distance of the line out. Other words, he's using the triangle postulate from algebra. This way to get a crank 10 ft deep, you let out 15 ft of line.
Needless to say, all I caught today was my crankbaits on each other. Any help would be appreciated!
Second part / rant. I will never, NEVER put a boat on Priest again during the daylight hours during summer. I was casting to deep structure and got hung up and it broke off. I moved my boat out of the way to 6 ft of water and floated while I retied. I can hear a boat screaming up the river towards me, motor full throttle, radio blaring, folks hooping a hollering having a good time. Well they see me and go between me and the bank! I was in 6 ft of water, so they go blowing up to me, realize its super shallow and full stop the throttle. Well low and behold its a wake boat and it threw a wake with 3 ft swells and this was the first time I've ever felt uncomfortable in my 1650 xpress. Needless to say I gave them one heck of a tongue lashing.
They didn't know a thing about where they were other than they were on the water.
At least I made it off the water before this storm hit!
Then I tried the rigs for pushing them off the front. I got these from a guy off crappie.com, and I like the idea a whole lot. It's a rig with a swivel built into a 3 oz weight, with a leader going to a quick change. Hook the rig to your line, crankbaits to the quick change, and due to the weight, as long as your going where the line is at a 45 degree to the pole / water, its going to be 2/3 the distance of the line out. Other words, he's using the triangle postulate from algebra. This way to get a crank 10 ft deep, you let out 15 ft of line.
Needless to say, all I caught today was my crankbaits on each other. Any help would be appreciated!
Second part / rant. I will never, NEVER put a boat on Priest again during the daylight hours during summer. I was casting to deep structure and got hung up and it broke off. I moved my boat out of the way to 6 ft of water and floated while I retied. I can hear a boat screaming up the river towards me, motor full throttle, radio blaring, folks hooping a hollering having a good time. Well they see me and go between me and the bank! I was in 6 ft of water, so they go blowing up to me, realize its super shallow and full stop the throttle. Well low and behold its a wake boat and it threw a wake with 3 ft swells and this was the first time I've ever felt uncomfortable in my 1650 xpress. Needless to say I gave them one heck of a tongue lashing.
They didn't know a thing about where they were other than they were on the water.
At least I made it off the water before this storm hit!