Trolling advice, still new

[Jiga-Byte]

Great info! I guess the point of confusion for me comes from looking at the Precision dive chart for RR's. If you compare the depths for LC 2.0 verses 10# XT, its literally about 30 ft of line difference to acheive the same depth running depth of 20ft down. Now as your desired depth increases, the difference between the mono and LC 2.0 (according to Precision) exponentially increases.

So I guess Im confused how there could be that much difference for RR's but not Bandits.

[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.