Fishing Big Crank Baits In Heavy Cover
This is one of my favorite big fish techniques while there are a lot more people doing this once unthinkable way of fishing these days then ever before, I have been doing it for many years with great success.
I like to use a 7 foot med heavy action rod with a 5.1 heavy cranking reeel spooled with 20 lb mono... the mono is key here as you need the line to be able to float back up with the bait. The bait itself is not nearly as important as the presentation although I do prefer a lucky craft RC 2.0 in american shad but as I say any big profile diving bait will work in this technique.
I like to target large pad fields with this technique and look for the "spot on the spot" such as different species of auqautic plants in the pads, pads with flowers , dying vegetaion next to green ,changes in depth and or a mud bottom to hard bottom rocky to sand etc.. you have to find these "spots on the spot " or you will waste to much time in these large pad fields.
I will cast my bait into the holes in these key areas also if the pads are big enough to support my large crank I will toss it up on the pad and softly drag it into the water followed by a quick jerk to pull the bait under the surface then let it rise back up to the surface.
I will then using a stop and go retrive bring the bait in and out of the pads untill I reach a spot that I can go no farther with out snagging deeply allowing the bait to dive and flot dive and float .
Lucky Craft R C Crankbait.
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I am always challenging my self to throw these lures where most would not even think of throwing them also remember that most of these fish are "resident fish " meaning they spend most of there lives back in this cover and they are not seeing these type baits very often if at all.
