Trolling with dipseys

[branhamautomotive]

It's amazing how many fish can be picked up right under the boat. More than once I have used my down rigger to fish directly from, just add a snubber and 6ft leader and either a j7 or j9 or spoon. Somewhat hard to read with smaller fish. But if your boat is equipped and you have the men but not the rods it's a quick way to put a few extra lines in. I normally run them just a few feet above the bottom.

On our 19fter we can run 6 inline, 2 dips and the down rigger, so I could get enough ppl on the boat I could run 12 lines at 1 one time.......that's never going to happen on a 19fter. But it's nice to have all the options cause some days 1 method seems to beat the others.

On my dips and downriggers i use as 12 inch snubber. Different color on each side just to clearly distinguish which one goes on each side quickly

[fisherman 2]

ditto on checking them...if their catching fish regularly and one quits check it...either small fish on it or it could be tangled....been quite a few times we check and nothing on it and put it back out and it goes right away...must be the different motion of the spoon moving down into place...we fish mostly west of west sister and normaly the dips are out less than 75 ft...only takes less than a minute to check and reset...I had one day last summer when I fished alone and ran 2 dips both back 65 ft one with a purple demon and the other a uv helmut and I caught over 60 eyes and numerous trash fish to get 6 keepers...if one had a fish on the other one did too even though it didn't look like it...got to the point were I just checked them constanly, sometimes nothing was there...between all the fish and checking and reseting them I prolly did it between 80-100 times...got to say I was kind of tired when I got done at noon...helmut caught more fish but demon caught all the keepers.