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Long Line Trolling for Crappie? - drunkndirty - 10-07-2010
Does anyone here do it?
I just started this year and it's a blast!
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Re: [drunkndirty] Long Line Trolling for Crappie? - idahopanfish - 10-07-2010
Welcome to the forum. Hope you find BFT both benificial and where you can share info as well, For starters I am not sure what long line trolling is, so I am not sure if I have done it or not. Tell me about it.
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Re: [idahopanfish] Long Line Trolling for Crappie? - drunkndirty - 10-07-2010
Long line trolling is trolling jigs behind the boat at low speeds between .8 - 1.2 mph. I use my electric bow mount trolling motor to power the boat and a GPS to monitor my speed.
The depth of the water and fish will determine jig size. I use a 1/32 in 5-6' of water in spring and 1/16 and 1/8 later in the year when fish go deeper. I use a 2" curly tail grub (I prefer Southern Pro Hot grubs). The curly tail grub has a great action at the above mentioned speeds and sends out good vibrations that mimic the tail action of a minnow.
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Re: [drunkndirty] Long Line Trolling for Crappie? - bytebull - 10-07-2010
Never done that.
most of the huge crappie we catch here in ARK... are on jigs in small ponds... check my images on my profile and see a crappie almost 2lb.
crappie school so I really don't see how trolling for them would be productive. I could be wrong been wrong many times.
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