Speed cranking

[Catt]

4 hours ago, Pat Brown said:

Bass metabolism may slow down a bit in the winter but I haven't seen evidence that they swim slower or react slower when it's cold

 

4 hours ago, Catt said:

One Ton Jig! 😉

 

[Bigbox99]

I've been doing this with lipless in early spring when the water temps are still ice cold and everything is still dead and brown from winter.  For me thats in early April but I'm in the Midwest.   I burn and pause a 3/8 oz super spot with a 6 gear reel in super shallow water when the fish move onto these shallow flats to warm up. They'll follow the bait and then sort of run into it and grab it on the pause then become angry dead weight when I reel them in.  

 

I imagine this works with deeper tight wobbling cranks too if you are on the fish.  I wouldn't want to go out trying to search for deep fish with a deep crank in cold water.  If you've been on them all year and know they are there then give it a shot.  

[Phelptwan]

Was out with a buddy this year throwing 3xd and 5xd's.  He hooked up with a fish and I went to reel in my 3xd as fast as I could on a 5.0 reel.  While doing this I hooked up with a fish.  I thought to myself, hrm, lets give that another go and repeated things.  I decided to throw the 3xd on a 8.2 reel and kept catching fish burning it as fast as I could.  It was a ton of fun.

[Mbirdsley]

IMHO the people that stress and promote speed cranking are generally fishing for the biggest bass in the lake and are ok with sometimes going hours or days with out a bite.  i don’t have that kind of time or patience so i don’t speed crank. I consider my self a decent crank fisherman. 

 

I also believe, if your going to speed crank you have to commit to it 100% and that’s just how you crank fish or you don’t do it at all.