06-16-2021, 05:33 AM
While this (pretty much trolling) thread is still up, I need to confess a HUGE mistake I'd been making last season, in using the "depth, distance, speed, weight" charts...I know you guys are smarter than me, but maybe me figuring out my error will help 1 or 2 of you to not make the same mistake....SO....getting your lure down to the desired depth is the goal.....Here was my mistake....I would let out (for example) 50' of line, clip on my planer, then go out another 50'....in this example, I was thinking I was out 100' to get the depth I wanted, with the weight I had on....WRONG....I was only out 50'....the other 50' is just the pull away from the boat, not contributing to desired depth....So now if I need 100' distance to get my desired depth, I have to let 100' of line out, then clip on the planer, and then let out 40 or 50' more just to 'plane' away from the boat...Last season I was lucky getting some fish up higher than I thought, cuz where I thought I was down 30/35', I was probably only 20/25', or maybe even shallower....Hope this helps....Guluk...