Trolling crankbaits

[lmtout-fitters]

7 hours ago, top_dollar said:

I'm gonna buy some snap weights.  Do you mind divulging some info?  Do you just use your bottom bouncing rods? How much weight and how much line out?  I want to get a flicker shad/shad rap 4 or 5 down about 15-20 foot. 

So I use mainly a 50 plus 2 method.  Put a no. 7 flicker shad on. Let out 50 ft of line then put a 2 0z trolling weight on, then how much ever line my precision trolling app. says.  To get me to desired depth.   Usually I use the 50 plus 2 method for my outside rods and the 25 plus 2 for my inside shorter rods that go strait out the back of the boat. Right now I am using the bass pro depthmaster and the bass pro prodigy trolling rods.  The depth master rods are cheap so if I break one I dont feel to bad about it.  But I haven't broke one in 3 years of using them.  Hope this helps. Everything else I do bottom bouncing, jig rap, jig crawler/minnow, or jig plastic. I use the lmtout-fitters rods.  Lol

[GRANDPA TATER]

My friend and I had what we consider a successful trip. We fished 7 hours on Tuesday, 7 hours on Wednesday, and 5 hours on Thursday before heading home. Tuesday was the most successful as we had 13 walleye - 7 keepers, and 16 very nice crappie. Wind was west and it was partly to mostly cloudy. The bite got better as the day went on. When we got on the water Wednesday morning the water temp had dropped 4 degrees. It was bright and sunny and the wind had switched to more NW. It was slow going early but we caught 11 walleye but only 3 keepers. The crappie were tougher as we only caught 7 but there were nice. Water temp was back up to 69 at the end. On Thursday we fished 7:30 to 12:30 and caught 6 walleye - 3 keepers and another 7 crappie including a dandy black crappie. Again sunny skies and light NW wind. All fish were  caught while trolling. We fished on a variety of baits (Matt Glover cranks, Delta Crappie cranks and #7 Flicker shads) and had success on all of them. We caught fish on a variety of colors. The best Flicker shad was definitely a shiny firetiger. We never got onto a real "pattern" with the crappie -  just one here and one there. Going back over a spot we caught fish, which was usually successful in the past, didn't seem to work this trip. The walleye were mostly related to secondary points in coves but we caught some others out in the open. We fished all reels with braid in both green and high vis yellow - it didn't seem to matter. With braid we only lost one bait the whole trip - of course it was a Glover that was catching fish! 

Tight lines to you all!

Tater