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Topic: Downrigger ball size?  (Read 2366 times)

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bdon

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I can troll a 4lb weight ~2 knots and the downrigger weight will be visible on my fishfinder.  I usually troll 20-65ft of depth.  Scotty Laketroller

There is still an angle to it but I use the FF to know exactly how deep it is.  Very rarely it will blowback beyond the FF scope usually when current/speed all line up but this has only happened a few times.

I use the cheapest downrigger weight I can find on Amazon with a fin on them and now I use a snubber as well as I snagged the reef once and it was sketchy.  Snubber should allow for some stretch.


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So some feedback about the 2.5 lb weights...to light, lots of telescoping. Probably should have known that would happen at that weight. I’m going to try these in a 4lb version next.