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I took my lunch to a local lake today to wet a line. The water was still heavily stained, and the fish laughed at my junebug worm offering. Switched to a Mann's crank of early (to me) vintage and unknown color, it's probably a -1 and has a lot of chartreuse in it. I've had it forever and its worked in muddy water previously. The punks (thanks to Curly for the term) liked it and I caught four in a matter of minutes. These are representative.
Then the crank got slammed: heavy fish on. Not a bass, however, but a big, ugly cat. It went 4-3. That's my biggest fish since the end of March.
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Nice Mike! Looks like a fire tiger pattern or some variation of that. That catfish must have been on a decent fight. I'm going to try and fish every day after work next week. Let me know if you're free.
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That is almost if not the exact same crank I used yesterday in my "5/31 pond hopping" post.
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Nothing wrong with taking on a cat on a crank bait....beats punks any day of the week!
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AndrewDo124 wrote:
Nice Mike! Looks like a fire tiger pattern or some variation of that. That catfish must have been on a decent fight. I'm going to try and fish every day after work next week. Let me know if you're free.
You're right, I'd call it a firetiger variation. It has a dark green metallic back that I don't associate w/ firetiger, but that is splitting hairs. It's hard to believe the fish care (or can even see) the back of this lure given the shallow depths at which it runs.
Sounds great, I'll go, email or call me w/ times that are good.
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Dominion Dan wrote:
That is almost if not the exact same crank I used yesterday in my "5/31 pond hopping" post.
Hah, a cross-county pattern. I thought you guys were using poppers though. **Edit** OK, re-read it, saw the switch to cranks got you the fish.
Last edited by mudkart (Jun-01-09 2:22PM)
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Nice fish!! Be careful down there at night. I met a guy on Saturday that had got arrested for fishing after dark last week. Held for 2 hours and has to go to court. Cuffed and stuffed over a little old buzzbait.
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flippin4it wrote:
Nice fish!! Be careful down there at night. I met a guy on Saturday that had got arrested for fishing after dark last week. Held for 2 hours and has to go to court. Cuffed and stuffed over a little old buzzbait.
Oh no, someone's throughing a buzzbait, quick, call 911!
Seriously, they took him to the hoosegow?
That would put a big dent in my fishing: I'd say 50% of it is at night at the local lakes. The police I've come across at night have only given a (half-hearted) warning, or even chatted w/ me because they weren't exactly looking for anglers.
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He got picked up at the old boat launch at about 2 in the morning. He said they asked no questions. Looked at his ID and away he went.
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How deep does that Crankbait run, because I have a very similar sized one. I haven't tried it on ceder yet, but i think it might dive to deep and get hung up on a log, etc.
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gatorchomp93 wrote:
How deep does that Crankbait run, because I have a very similar sized one. I haven't tried it on ceder yet, but i think it might dive to deep and get hung up on a log, etc.
They are a shallow crank. A Mann's -1 will run from ~1-12" deep depending on the retrieve. You might get it deeper by really burning it.
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yeah, i think a Mann's -1 would be one of only a few crankbaits I would throw in the Ashburn ponds because of the snotgrass. they run very shallow and if you hold your rod tip high you can almost wake them with a slow retrieve.
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This is a Mann's Baby One Minus which dives 1-12" in the Fire Shad color. Mann's also makes a bait called the Waker which dives 1-3", creating a large wake, drawing fish up out of the cover. This bait can be thrown in weedy ponds, lakes and rivers without fear of hanging up in the vegetation.
Charlie NHBA
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