inline weights or jets?

[ebijack]

Like everything else, there are days where the fish prefer one over the other. Last couple years I painted my inlines black like the black/purple mini's I find to work the best and those inlines have worked better being black. It seems the attractor, inline, jet or mini can be color dependent due to water/weather conditions. The jets give you the advantage of floating when slowing down or stopping or even in sharp turns. And then tend to dive more to the same depth every time with given line out where weighted systems depths are more speed driven. I run 40 jets behind my offshore boards without a problem same with the mini disks. I modified my jets with releases. Day in day out I would rather run inlines due to the ease but the fish just won't have it on some days.

[wakina]

In the rocks or on the reefs or edges of the reefs I think the jets and tru-trips shine. I say this because if your leads must be longer than the water depth, and if you must slow down or stop to net a fish, make a turn or to avoid another boat the in-line or snap weight will sink and can snag in the rocks since it is further from the boat than the water is deep (example~~30 ft. lead in 20 ft. of water) = Murphy's Law!

Jets and tru-trips both tend to float up or stay neutral in those conditions so I only fish with the divers anymore so I don't have to change back and forth to fish on the rocks or open water and some days I will fish both on the same pass. As for jets and tru-trips off of small boards I have had no issues with either the regular Jet 40's or the tru-trip 40 divers at speeds as high as 2.5 GPS. The small boards are much easier to read with tru-trips than regular jets because once the tru-trip diver releases/trips the board pulls entirely different even with a small fish hooked. I use the Church Tackle TX-22 boards.

In open water I think they are both about alike, the difference depends more on the configuration of the weight as the configuration can change the tracking and action of the preferred lure.

[fishkiller16]

We did real well, last week with 2OZ Torpedo Divers 40-50 foot back, also we used 3 color lead core all week also with real good success. We trolled 1.4-1.7 mph.