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Location: Waukesha Wisconsin | When do you switch from crawler Harnesses to cranks?
We're getting to that time of year when the preference for the fish change from trolling with crawler harnesses to crankbaits.
How or when do you decide to make the change? Is it a water temperature indicator? Do you try both and let the fish decide? Is it a callander period?
What are the signs that indicate it's time to make the switch? |
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Location: Berlin | I switch when the harnesses stop working! As we all know, the forage base is at an all time high for most bodies of water right now. When you catch eyes that are puking up bait, time to switch to cranks. |
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| Good question......It seems cranks will work all summer from what I learned this year.
Also, the fall pattern that Rich mentioned, the lakes are loaded with bait fish. But the bait fish have been growing all summer. Here's some thing that I learned last fall on 'Bago.....Go bigger with the cranks in the fall. |
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Location: Northern Illinois | We where out on Lk Geneva 2 weeks back, for a late day and night fishing trip. Cranks clearly out-caught harnesses. And, the fish where larger on the cranks than those caught on harnesses. Mike |
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Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | Dennis.
On Saginaw Bay, this question would be best reversed for almost the whole spring to late summer season. But during the fall/early winter months I'd use about the same formula as I do while fishing the rivers. 50 degrees and below jump on the cranks and minnows. Above that, the crawlers get the nod. Both of course can and do work together often enough. But I'm thinking the forage choices, their late season size and availabilty, as well as the migration habbits of the fish themselves might play into this equation on many bodies of water.
Edited by walleye express 9/22/2004 3:08 PM
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| Jayman, how big is big on Winnebago? I've always ahd luck on #5 shad raps, 1/4 ounce wally divers, deep juniors, and ripshads. I guess I've always been programmed to run this way. Am I missing the boat on some late fall winnebago eyes? |
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| MD22,
Possibly, I learned from a friend that larger husky jerks were the ticket to getting the fish to go in Sept. Unfortuately I didn't learn that until after last years WWA Championship tourney. You'll have to forgive me I'm not a rapala model number buff, but I believe it was #9 huskys or #11. The ones that are about 6" long. The fish came off of rocks though, not mud.
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When do you switch from crawler Harnesses to cranks?