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Location: Appleton,WI | what do you think is your actual speed reeling in a bait? VS. Trolling a bait?
How fast can you reel? |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Some spinning reels allow reeling in a lure at about walking spped, or 5 MPH to 6MPH if I remember correctly. |
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Location: Eagan, MN | Good question. I throw a Vibrax a lot, and I'm usually burning them pretty fast. I don't know how fast, but I have to trim hair and add weight to keep them under the surface, so it's gotta be pretty fast. I'm guessing 5mph. I use a 7000 w/ 5.3 gears, so that helps |
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Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin | Most trolling speeds are 2.5 to 3.5 in the areas I fish. We do kick it up higher from time to time.
Casting is 2 to 3.5 for the baits I cast and troll.
I try to match the speeds on my baits. If the baits I cast trigger fish into strikes I try to match that speed when I troll.
I also like to run my cranks at speeds where they are almost blowin out. By this I mean the baits top speed before it gets too erratic to control.
This is the best speed for the bait because it is erratic and creates strikes. A wild erratic bait will produce better than a slow consistant bait. That is if the water temps are not stone cold.
My point is lure speeds are different for most baits. Some are very versitile and others will only work good in a small range. Some baits you can crank up well over 5mph others will not allow you to go over 3mpg.
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Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin | I know I have burned bucktails in at over 6mph.
After burning a Vibrex casting I cranked up the boat and trolled it until I got to the speed I was burning it. 5.5 to 6mph.
Now take that times 4 to 5 hundred cast a day. 60 casts per hour x 7 hours a day casting not counting travel time or other things in a days fishing. Thats 420 casts at just 7 hours casting per day buring a bucktail. Now figure you put in 10 to 12 hours a day.
Lots of water covered for sure. No wonder my arms, hands and back hurt after that week of fishing. |
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| I could never keep up trolling speed if I had to. My body just wouldn't take it.
I do, however, believe in a god "RRRIIIPPP" when I am reeling in my cranks, whether I am straight retrieving or mixing it up.
I like to reel straight toward the boat, then pause, reel some more, pause and the give it a RIP-RIP-RIP...almost like 2 or 3 or 4 hooksets, pulling straight up when I do it, then work the last rip into an 8. The same retrieve works for bass, pike and walleyes on wingdams. 
Beav |
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Location: pittsburgh, pa | |
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Location: pittsburgh, pa | Caught this past weekend trolling at 4.8 mph, it 46.5"s with a 23" girth. When casting depending on what your throwin I would say you crank at about 3mph,
Todd
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| Nice looking fish! |
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| You can't reel a bait in faster than a Muskie could swim anyway, and it's been said that "Speed Kills" at times, but I usually don't burn baits too fast. I have added extra weight to bucktails which allowed me to keep them just under the surface, but at a much faster speed.
My brother used to get so darn mad at me when we first started Muskie fishing, as I'd slow the bait down when I'd get a follow, hoping it would trigger the fish. He told me to try to play keep-away with the fish instead, and speed up to get reaction strikes. It works. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | true enough. A muskie can swim in the mid thirty mile an hour range, so there's no way you can reel too fast. |
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| Speed kills, sometimes. Trolling 2.5 to 3.5 mph works well when the water is colder than 40 degrees, but going 3 to 4 mph most other times works best. Speed trolling from 5 to 7 mph works, and I know guys who have speed trolled at 10 mph and still caught fish. Casting, power crank as fast as you can and it is not too fast. |
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