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WK Guide Service- Cranking in the Crappie #12817385 07/05/18 08:38 PM
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So I had the day off today, so what did I do? I went fishing. I decided today to try something different. I went out with the goal of catching as many crappie as I can on deep diving crank bait. Here’s the results. I fished from 8 AM until 10:30 AM and ended up with 16 big keepers every one was caught on a deep diving crank bait. The bait of choice is the Bomber Fatfree shad suspending model. Who needs jigs or minnows? LOL.





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Re: WK Guide Service- Cranking in the Crappie [Re: Waco Kid] #12817601 07/06/18 12:12 AM
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Thanks Dean, that's impressive. I have trolled those lures a lot, and found them to run about 10 ft. Do you have a trick to get them deeper, or are you catching them at 10 feet?...Lawton


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Re: WK Guide Service- Cranking in the Crappie [Re: Waco Kid] #12817612 07/06/18 12:26 AM
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Actually that suspending model sinks at a rate of about 6 in./s so I count down to about 7 feet and do a very Slow retrieve. A lot of times the bite will occur as you pull it over the top of the brush pile. That semi square bill will usually keep it from getting hung up. Although I did lose 2 crank baits today. LOL

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Re: WK Guide Service- Cranking in the Crappie [Re: Waco Kid] #12817684 07/06/18 01:25 AM
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Awesome post. I've been wanting to try the same thing and the lake I fish. Just haven't found a smallish crankbait that I can get down to 12-15ft. I will have to give those Bombers a try.


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Re: WK Guide Service- Cranking in the Crappie [Re: Waco Kid] #12817687 07/06/18 01:27 AM
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There are some great videos trolling crankbaits for crappie. In the video they seem to use pink a lot

Re: WK Guide Service- Cranking in the Crappie [Re: Waco Kid] #12817810 07/06/18 03:00 AM
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Nice fish. thumb


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Re: WK Guide Service- Cranking in the Crappie [Re: Waco Kid] #12817853 07/06/18 03:29 AM
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That’s cool....what depth does that crank run.....

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Re: WK Guide Service- Cranking in the Crappie [Re: Waco Kid] #12818266 07/06/18 04:14 PM
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good stuff, , sometimes changing things up is alot of fun., ive been doing alot more casting. crappie will hit a moving bait many times when they wont hit a still bait. thumb


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Re: WK Guide Service- Cranking in the Crappie [Re: canyoncreek06] #12819563 07/07/18 07:04 PM
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Originally Posted By: canyoncreek06
Awesome post. I've been wanting to try the same thing and the lake I fish. Just haven't found a smallish crankbait that I can get down to 12-15ft. I will have to give those Bombers a try.


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Thats cool!


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Thats cool trying different tactics to catch crappie thumb


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Re: WK Guide Service- Cranking in the Crappie [Re: Waco Kid] #12820393 07/08/18 06:05 PM
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