How fast do you guys troll deep divers such as rapala #5 & #7’s and the small and large wallydivers?
I can get the 115 merc (2+2) down to 1.8, any slower and I have to use the bow electric. I’ve trolled using the electric before and it is a pain in the [censored], but I have never tried trolling with the big motor.
I can’t say that I ever needed or wanted to go slower than 2.0 when pulling cranks. I spend lots of time in that 2.2 to 2.7mph range.
T
With cranks, I’ve trolled as fast as 4.5mph and as slow as 1.0mph although on average, it’s probably mostly in the 2-3mph range.
Stickbaits are different and usually get more time in the water when surface temps are quite cold. Like below 40 degrees. At that time, I’m likely to be trolling in the .5 to 1.5mph range a lot more often.
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With cranks, I’ve trolled as fast as 4.5mph and as slow as 1.0mph although on average, it’s probably mostly in the 2-3mph range.
Exactly what I was going to type.
Do you have to go pretty fast Brian when you are trolling a 4 oz no-roll and a 10″ bullhead? 
dd
You should be fine with the big motor at 2-3 mph
I pull 1.5 -2.5
I spend more time running 1 to 1.5 mph then any other speed. Just throw a sock over if you can’t get your motor slow enough. 
Some motors don”t like to idle all day.
Most of my crank trolling speeds at this time of year are 2.5-3.5 mph.
I had a bite going a few years back where if I dipped below 3 I caught sheepshead, anything over 3 and it was eyes and sauger.
ET
In the spring I start out at 1.8-2.2 and as the water warms I speed up and will go up the the mid 4’s. I normally always start out at 2.3 and go up or down from there. Let the fish tell you what they want becasue they will.
Tough question to answer because it depends on so many variables such as style of crankbait, water clarity, forage base, water temps, time of the year and time of day. If I had to start out with one speed and adjust from there it would be 2.0 m.p.h
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Do you have to go pretty fast Brian when you are trolling a 4 oz no-roll and a 10″ bullhead?
dd
Believe it or not, on the Croix before it was a St. there was a group of boats trolling a certain undisclosed area (Wally gets mad if I’m any more clear than that) with cranks.
We zipped in trolling at least twice as fast(4.5) as anyone else, picked up 5 keepers and left. I know some of those guys were scratching their heads.
Trolling at that speed doesn’t give old marble eyes a chance to think…it’s flash! Wham! Fish on!
I’m just saying don’t think 4.5 mph is too fast…in my expert walleye fisherman’s opinion. 
I know quite a few years back when I had a 15 horse on the back of a 14′ Lund going at half throttle I caught quite a few walleyes. The first time I tried that, I was at a lake that everybody but one guy was livebait riggin,so this guy is flying along and netting fish often. I figured he was getting pike but figured that was better than nothing.I stayed out in the lake a long ways away to get the speed down than put on a Rapala and was really surprized as I caught one walleye after another.I have know way of knowing the actual speed but I am preety sure I had to be in the 5-6 mph area.
I usually hit the 2-3 mph range.
Regarding “speed trolling” a guy once instructed me to go as fast as I think I should and then double it.
Something that I don’t believe was mentioned is where you’ll be trolling. I can’t really speak to river fishing, because here in central Neb we don’t have a river to fish with a boat. But we do have a canal system, and I know depending on where you are, sometimes you’re trolling only about 1.4 mph. Even right now in the heat. The reverse of that is you can drive to a lake 5 miles away and pull cranks at 2.9 mph and that’ll produce the same day. Weird stuff.
What I’ve found is to find a starting point and go from there and adjust up or down, let the fish tell you what they want. I start at 2.2 a lot of times and go from there.
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