Originally Posted by GeoFisher
Some time the crappie are up in the weeds in the shallow flats. Troling though that stuff with a crank bait can be tough. Even if the weeds are below the surface by a couple of feet there are always some free weeds floating on the surface.
I spend more time pulling weeds off the crank baits than I do fish.Hey, That's fishing though.
I've got three soft bags now (each with 4 of the 7250 Plano Plastic Boxes full of crank baits. About 1/2 of them are new Bandit Crank Baits. The rest I got from my late father's collection of crank baits that we used for 30 years down at KY lake.
I remember him talking about going down to KY lake in late Oct or Nov and walking the banks of the islands and finding all kinds of baits hung up in the buck bush. When the water's up in the spring people lose all kinds of baits in the buck brush. Back in the 1950's the buck brush was thick as tourist in Paris in the summer time. But when the corps drop the water level those baits are hanging on the buck brush branches which are not high and dry. It's like picking Christmas tree ornaments off the Christmas tree on Christmas Eve.
Dad use to take those old crank baits back home and repaint them and replace the hooks if needed. I found some nice arrow heads one time when I went there with him in the fall. There was a old fort on the bluff at the mouth of the bay where we used to fish. And I heard that some people would find civil war mini balls at times. I think that was Ft Danielson. It was at the mouth of Cypress Bay right on the KY/TN line.
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