Downrigger Finned Cannonball Sinkers - Looking or 2lb???

I'm looking for 2 or 3 lb. Downrigger Finned Cannonball Sinkers.  Cant find on net.  Any one have a source?

I'm looking for 2 or 3 lb. Downrigger Finned Cannonball Sinkers.  Cant find on net.  Any one have a source?

I use the 4lb from Amazon. $35. 2lb sounds kinda light.

Not sure they make them that small.  Only ball shape at that size

Thanks fellas.  I picked up two of the 4lb with fins on Amazon, they are high quality.  I thought I might need to go to the finless ball and put an eye screw in one side of it to drop down to two pounds.  With paddle no pedal I was hoping that I could get a 45 degree angle with the 2 lb. without much speed.  I'll post if modified balls work.

2 pounds will be way too light for salmon fishing! might be ok for trout since the flashers create less drag. I also have the 4 lb cannon ball with fin from Amazon and it works great!! Just remember to replace the cable with 80 pound braded line and jeep a knife handy just incase you snag bottom or a whale.

Kayak anglers do a lot of effective salmon trolling with small cannonball sinkers, which result in the fishing line descending at something like a 45 degree angle.  See, for example, http://www.northwestkayakanglers.com/index.php?page=33.  The disadvantage of such a rig is the uncertainty about how deep it is running, although if you are only running it perhaps 20 feet down, or you are bouncing the cannonball sinker off the bottom, you don't need to know the exact depth at which it is running.

The advantage of downrigger trolling is that you can see the bottom, suspended fish, and your downrigger weight on your fish finder, and can use the downrigger to present your lure very precisely to suspended fish, or very precisely right above the bottom.  For example, if your fish finder shows the distinctive signature of a school of kokanee forty feet down, you can use a downrigger to run your lure through the school at exactly the same depth, and can troll through the school in figure eight patterns.  Or if your fish finder shows groups of lake trout on the bottom in 175 feet of water, such as in the picture shown below, which I took yesterday, you can use a downrigger to troll through the area right above the bottom.

The problem with trying to use a 2 pound weight to downrigger troll is that it will get pushed so far behind your kayak that you won't be able to see it on your fish finder, and thus won't know where the weight is located with respect to suspended fish and the bottom.  That's why nobody sells 2 pound downrigger weights.  In general, to get the best performance out of a downrigger, use the heaviest weight it will handle, as a heavier weight will run a shorter distance behind your kayak.  Scotty says that the maximum weight you should use on a Scotty Laketroller downrigger, which is a popular small downrigger, is four pounds, and I use a four pound weight with the Laketroller I have mounted on my Ocean Kayak Trident.  I have mounted a Cannon Lake-Troll downrigger on my 13' Revolution, and use an eight pound weight with that downrigger.  With an eight pound weight, I can troll right above the bottom down to at least 200 feet, depending on how fast I'm trolling.

For a description of how I set up my Revolution for downrigger trolling, and an explanation of how to downrigger troll from a kayak, see http://www.northwestkayakanglers.com/index.php?topic=12575.msg138905#msg138905.