Quote Originally Posted by RIPNLIP View Post
Is the humming coming from your rigger or the cable? I can't really think of anything that would make a manual rigger hum. Now the cable is a different story. The cable hums all the time. Depending on how fast you're trolling.

I thing the fact that the fish "disappeared" off your screen may have been a coincidence. You may have trolled thru & out of a school of fish. But you didn't leave the rigger down long enough to test the theory.

Give it another try. You should be fine.
I'll give it another shot. The noise was from the cable. I just wasn't expecting that noise and when the fish disappeared after lowering and then reappeared after I pulled it, I was concerned I did something wrong...
I did see some marks that looked like fish coming up to look at the ball....