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Thread: Line counter reels
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01-21-2023, 07:36 PM #23
Re: Line counter reels
While it is true that trolling in a particular direction catches better than other directions,we rarely pick up our gear and drive back to start again.We will more often make quicker turns if we need to troll a particular direction to catch better.The few times we picked up our gear was due to rough wave conditions.When the waves reach 3-4 ft trolling, downwind is much easier than into the wind or even crosswind.That is when we sometimes pick up our gear.
When it comes to targeting shallow fish, those shallow fish most often do not show up on your sonar.The reasons are, is that sonar cone is small the closer to the boat you scan.Another reason is the shallow fish move away from the boat as you move over them.Walleye do prefer to catch their food from below.They supposedly can target a lure from a couple feet up to 10ft above them, depending on the water clarity.Seams the few times we have caught shallow fish the conditions were calm and there was not much boat traffic around.We don't often run lures in the top 10ft of the water column.When we do is because my charter buddies will tip me off about that shallow bite if I'm fishing near them.Or if nothing else is catching and it's our last resort.When running our inline boards you have to run the longest leads on the outside.So if going to run shallow lures on your boards those are closest to the boat and most likely spooked by the boat.When we have tried to run some shallow cranks will just try on one side.So the outside board would be a 60 lead,the middle board at 40 and on inside board would be 20ft then a 2oz sinker then 20-40 more.That inside sinker will be running below those two outside boards when bringing them in.And if those shallow lures don't catch within 20-30 min,they are changed out to run deeper.We will also run those boards a little further from the boat.But it is really cool when you can catch them really shallow.Either trolling or casting.
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