toledo intake walleye

[wakina]

Ok rookie question here..when someone say,s 30 ft back does that meam drop rig down to bottom then let out 30 more feet? Or touch water surface an only let out 30ft..? I want to thank everyone for all tje help i have gotten in the past,and in the future..good bunch of people on here.

30 ft. back can mean all sorts of lengths! One example would be someone who is using inline boards and says 30 ft back it would be from the board back plus however much line it would take to get the board the distance away from the boat that you would want. So the line back would be 30 ft. back from the surface(board attachment point to the diver or inline wt.) then the leader and lure/bait.

To duplicate that same depth with just the rod in the rod holder and in the vertical position(straight up) with no board you would have to compensate for the distance from the rod tip to where the line enters the water which could be as much as 15ft or more. If the rod would be horizontal then the distance from the rod tip to where the line enters the water would be shorter making for yet another calculation for the fisherman. Same theory would apply if the rod was lowered to just above the water making for yet another calculation by the fisherman to get the lures into the strike zone that they would be trying to achieve. My point is that 30 ft back from an inline board would be considerably deeper than 30 ft back from the rod tip in a rod holder and in the the vertical position and still some what deeper than a rod that is in the horizontal position and still a little deeper than a rod that was almost touching the water.

Those rod tip to where the line enters the water changes the need for the amount of line out and consequently depth differences that can and do determine the difference between success or failure!