Trolling with downriggers

[sherman51]

just for fun I went to canon's blowback chart and checked 100' of line out with 8, 10, and 12, weights, and the depth shown for the 8 and 10 was 100' down. the 12 was just a couple of feet deeper. but that's at 2 mph. Another example they gave was at 4 mph and the depth was only 80' down. but this is a far cry from losing 15' down 30'. just go to cannondownriggers.com and check out the blowback on the charts for yourself then you will have a better understanding of blowback. so I figure with the 10# dredge weights at 55' with a deep diving bandit my lure should be close to 60' deep at 3 mph. works for me. I figure at 2 mph you are still right on and at 4 you lose 20' at 100' then at 3 mph you should only lose 10' at 100'. but then cut that in half at 50' you should only lose 5' at 3 mph. so at 55' the weight should be at 50' then with a 30' lead off the weight I figure I'm gaining another 10' which puts my crank at 60' with fish at approximately 65' which puts my bait just above the fish and anyone that knows about walleye known they mostly feed up but not always.

sorry for both lengthy posts., but I'm just trying to help the op as much as I can. and by going to cannon he doesn't have to depend on anything I say.

[West Basin]

Fishing Tiger is right - use a device like the Fish Hawk - Salmon Fishing: Determine Fishing Speed and Water Temperature with Fish Hawk Electronics - and you will know almost exactly how deep your lures are running. Using a device like this is the only way to really know how deep your lures are running. If you are going to fish this way a lot, then take the time to learn how deep various lures you are using are actually running.

Fishing Tiger - how well does the Fish Hawk device work? I purchased one back in the summer but unfortunately I haven't been able to try it out yet.

[centerpoint]

Fishing Tiger is right - use a device like the Fish Hawk - Salmon Fishing: Determine Fishing Speed and Water Temperature with Fish Hawk Electronics - and you will know almost exactly how deep your lures are running. Using a device like this is the only way to really know how deep your lures are running. If you are going to fish this way a lot, then take the time to learn how deep various lures you are using are actually running.

Fishing Tiger - how well does the Fish Hawk device work? I purchased one back in the summer but unfortunately I haven't been able to try it out yet.

yes that works great but if you are on a bugget and set your graph up correct on side image your cannon ball will show up as a black line it works well for me

[Fishing Tiger]

West Basin,

We have had zero negative issues with our Blue Tooth Fish Hawk. We get a full season out of one set of batteries (4 AA).
The best part is it integrates with our Solix and Optimas. I haven't figured out how to get it to control the Ultera yet.

I can't imagine trolling without it!

We now know depth, speed, and temp at our baits. It is amazing how far off the GPS speed can be. We use the temp feature allot in the early Spring and late Fall, can be very different than surface temp, and helps find the active from inactive fish on the graph.

[PRD]

When my FishHawk was working with an 8 lb ball at 35 ft on the rigger FH said it was about a foot higher, think I was doing 2.5 at most

Out soon to try north of Huron