06-25-2014, 07:12 PM
Hey TheScout,
Again, thanks for all the help.
Yeah, the Scotty downriggers came with the Scotty release clips. They were lake troller clamp-on downriggers. I may end up not liking the clamps. Eventually, I may mount them sideways on my gunnel. The downriggers have 100 ft of 150 lb test steel cable. They were half price ($50 each) on ebay and still in the box. Scotty recommended not going over 4 lbs on the weights. I have read about blow-back on the downriggers and it makes sense. I will brush up on my trigonometry and in no time will be able to calculate how many more feet of line that I need out. I also bought Okuma level wind reels with line counters to help on counting the depth.The Scotty's have a manual crank system and no depth guage. 1 crank = 1 foot. That seems like it could get inaccurate quick.
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Again, thanks for all the help.
Yeah, the Scotty downriggers came with the Scotty release clips. They were lake troller clamp-on downriggers. I may end up not liking the clamps. Eventually, I may mount them sideways on my gunnel. The downriggers have 100 ft of 150 lb test steel cable. They were half price ($50 each) on ebay and still in the box. Scotty recommended not going over 4 lbs on the weights. I have read about blow-back on the downriggers and it makes sense. I will brush up on my trigonometry and in no time will be able to calculate how many more feet of line that I need out. I also bought Okuma level wind reels with line counters to help on counting the depth.The Scotty's have a manual crank system and no depth guage. 1 crank = 1 foot. That seems like it could get inaccurate quick.
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