When you long line how fast do you move your boat? And what type of line do your use and how much is let out behind your boat to get the lure or bait to the depth you want to fish.
There is a book out about trolling crank baits etc but I don't know how to get the bait down to a certain depth ..yet. I have seen a guy long lining at Bluegrass and he caught some nice crappie. I have yet to figure out exactly how he did it.
How do you long line in an area with submerged timber without getting hung up a lot? I have caught crappie trolling Bandit Crank Baits in open water but I had to be careful to stay high enough in the water column to not get hung up in the top of submerged trees on Patoka Lake.
I use to drag bomber crank baits when going from one spot to another while bass fishing on KY lake and every once in a while I could catch a nice big crappie. We used a 20 HP Mercury Motor on a 16 ft long v hull aluminum boat back in those days and didn't go very fast when moving from one spot to the next. Most of the time we just drifted thought the fishing area using the wind and then after we drifted downwind so far we would either row back up wind and repeate the drift or start the gas motor and motor back upwind above the spot and drift though the area again. We would cast crank baits though the area while drifting though there and catch a lot of good bass. I think that our catch rate dropped when we started using electric trolling motors in the late 1970's. The noise probably scared the fish more so from the electric trolling motor than from the oars. When I used the gas motor I would not motor though the fishing area but went well around it until I got upwind again. Then I shut the motor off and used the oars to get the boat into position for a good drift though the fishing area. That way we didn't make as much noise in the fishing area and didn't scare the fish. We fished the edges of the islands this way a lot.
Originally Posted by Panfish Man
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