Line counter reels

[sherman51]

It sure can't! I'll post what I do when I get out there. I'm still learning and appreciate what is posted here to help. It's about 5 hours away for me and I do a few 3 day trips per season. I get my fish but it takes quite a while sometimes. I think I need to better on quicker turns to get back on biting fish.and going all in with more rods once a lead is established that is working. I'm improving on bandit colors based on water clarity and cloud coverage. I haven't been very good at high fish in deeper water...like 25-30 fow. I assume they are schools of eyes between 6 and 12 feet down because they are big marks?? I may not be high enough. How high above the fish have you all had luck pulling the cranks? 1-3 feet or more? I've never caught crap above 12 feet down from the surface unless I was in shallower around H Can. I usually seem to de best between F and Green Island. Leads 55-100 feet back with bandits unassisted. Thank you for the feedback if someone doesn't mind!

sometimes in the western basin, I've found it's better to just pull lines make a run-up, and troll back through. at most times I have found the fish will bite much better going in one direction over going the other way. I went with a friend that invited me to go out. the waves were coming out of the north. so we ran up a bit and trolled south. we got 18 of our 2-man limit and they just quit. we made a turn north and trolled north but never got the 1st fish on the way back out. we made our turn back south and had our other 6 fish and 2 more on the lines before we got all the lines back out. it doesn't hurt to try turning around but if the fish don't bite try running back out and go in your original direction.

[cohoho]

sometimes in the western basin, I've found it's better to just pull lines make a run-up, and troll back through. at most times I have found the fish will bite much better going in one direction over going the other way. I went with a friend that invited me to go out. the waves were coming out of the north. so we ran up a bit and trolled south. we got 18 of our 2-man limit and they just quit. we made a turn north and trolled north but never got the 1st fish on the way back out. we made our turn back south and had our other 6 fish and 2 more on the lines before we got all the lines back out. it doesn't hurt to try turning around but if the fish don't bite try running back out and go in your original direction.

this is so true. We do catch them both way sometimes but more times than not, we do better pulling lines and restarting the productive line again.

[wajski]

I run Daiwa 27 accudepth with no problems since they came out, I still use 4 with gold side plates. I have used the 47 sl but found them to be to big this is jm2c, I know a lot of people that run Okuma and have no complaints.