Trolling advice, still new

[Frank]

Well I would say lure design,internal weight, I have lures that dive 8' for instance I have other lures that dive the same depth but have a much larger Bill to get it done, buoyancy, bill angle. Action trying to be achieved

[Frank]

Jiga-bite
I searched through my book, the closest lure to the dive curve of a bandit and should get real close, is the Rapala deep taildancer ttd-9 , it has the fireline/ braid numbers in the book. Here are the mono numbers 45=13' ,50= almost 14', 60=15 ,72' =16', 80=17 , 100= 18.5 , 125= 20 ,150=21,178=22' compare those to the bandit numbers, here are the braid numbers for that same lure 20=10.5 ,30=12.5, 40=14.5 ,50=16.5, 60=18 ,70=19 ,80=20, 90=21, 100=21.5 ,125=23' ,150=24.5 these would be the numbers I would use trolling bandits with braid because the dive curves using mono with both lures are very close.Once you get out past 40' the RR continues on a steeper path ,this is a rr with braid 50=18, 60=20 ,80=22, 100=25 , with short leads they are pretty close.

[Jiga-Byte]

I was talking this issue over with anothet fellow troller at the campground, and we figured it out. The LC on the Precision Trolling app stands for leadcore. Thats what was throwing me off. Hence the dive curve is much sharper for leadcore. They dont list any numbers for Bandits with leadcore.

The bigger problem is Ive been using the LC numbers all season thus far. Which would make my lures much shallower than what I was aiming for. Probably could have caught more fish this year.

Sorry for the confusion. Im still very new to this and still figuring things out.