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Originally Posted by Saltwaterwalt
Reviewing all these striper posts are killing me, it's the last freshwater fish on my bucket list and I want to catch one ... or two or three.. 
But I don't have downriggers, or planer boards, so my question is; would I be spinning my wheels to troll some deep running crankbaits on PP early a.m. or p.m. off the points and islands on main lake? Might I actually pick one up doing this?
I have some pretty deep running Bandits that I have caught walleye on.
Thoughts? |
We were running downriggers a week ago. Caught one on the rigger and 6 on crankbaits in rod holders off to each side. We had about 75-100' of line out on the rods (running a line-counter on one, so I know the measurement). We caught 'em ~25' down (depending on the lure-dive ability and line). Black and gold reef runner (like a very large, big lipped rappala - walleye bait traditionally) will run >35'. Also chartreuse tiger stripe cranks.
We were running MUCH slower than 2.4mph. We were running the big motor (i/o 3.0 litre), but closer to 1.7. Didn't touch the trolling motor all day. We got started with lines wet at 6:30am and the bite was over by 10 right at the dam on PP.