Carolina cranking

There is a good article in the Tennessee sportsman magazine this month on carolina cranking. Just wondering if any of you guys out there has seen the article or ever tried it?? Basically it sounds like it will work once you think about it. As we all know, it is almost impossible to get a crankbait to run past 20-25 feet unless you are trolling it down or throwing a dd22, then you feel like your arm is going to fall off after a while. :eek: With this you fish a carolina rig, but use a crank bait instead of a worm, lizard, and so on. The kicker to it is to use a big enough weight to get it down to 30 feet or more where fish may be suspended say up off the bottom, but use a crankbait or jerkbait that will float up once the weight is on the bottom. As you pull it or hop it along on the bottom the crankbait pulls down and when you pause or stop it for a moment it floats back up to the end of your leader. The article says it is something that maybe fish hasn't seen before at that depth and you can put it right in front of their face with this setup and often pickup fish instead of coming back to the ramp empty handed. Oh, it also said to try to keep your floro carbon leader with the crankbait attached as short as possible due to tangling when you cast it. The author of the article was using a plain old floating #6 or #9 silver/black back floating rapala. Don't know if if will work or not, but I plan on giving it a try next time I am out fishing for the fun of it and not in a tourney.;)

good way to lose alot of CBs. If you really HAVE to fish a CB that deep your best bet is strolling, take about 3-4 rods, cast them out then idle or troll across the point you want to fish until you spool the reels, that will get you out there much farther than a reg. cast will and you won't have to worry about losing as many as you would c-riggin them.

This goe,s along the way of the baitwalker years ago,any of you guys
remember that thing ? i never did care much for it lol :D

I might have tried it with a shad rap on ky lake a couple of years ago with no luck.....

I tried it while fishing the St. Johns river years ago in Central Florida and had a few fish but nothing that hooked me on the technique. The current was the key since that would impart some action on the bait as it was sitting still.:)

[quote=buzzking;298791]good way to lose alot of CBs. If you really HAVE to fish a CB that deep your best bet is strolling, take about 3-4 rods, cast them out then idle or troll across the point you want to fish until you spool the reels, that will get you out there much farther than a reg. cast will and you won't have to worry about losing as many as you would c-riggin them.[/quote]


I hear what your saying on the cb's there buzzking, they aren't cheap. Like I said, I will have to give it a try aleast once while I am pleasure fishing because you can't troll and try it in a tournament. But you know the old saying..."curiosity killed the cat":p

There was also an article on this in of the more recent recent issues of Kentucky Game and Fish.