Great Lakes Fishing
Fishing with downriggers
4/26/12 @ 8:46 AM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LilxgY75P8M
A very simple, straight forward description of how to do it.
On 2 of the boats I fish one we do it all the time. And yes, its called stacking.
Lets just say your fishing 100 feet of water.
Put your first lure out 50 feet and snap it your release, then lower it down 15 feet. You will need a special stacker release now. Its just a double really with two release pads and another swivel.
You put the swivel on the downrigger cable (so you dont loose it) and then let out your second line about 30 feet. Clip one of the pads onto the second fishing line, and one release onto your downrigger line.
Now lower the downrigger to say 80 feet deep. Now your fishing one line at 80 feet and one at 65 feet deep.
We always run longer leads on the lower rigger, thinking that if a fishs hit that one and runs straight up it will already be behind the top lure, so no tangles.
Do the same thing on the other side but put the bottom lure at 70 and 55 feet down. now you have lures at 80, 70, 65, and 55 deep.
Thats covering a lot of water column with just 2 riggers.
Setting the drags right when lowering 2 poles will be important to get them both going out without tripping releases.
Also the seperation between rod tips is important. One should be just about straight up and down and one should be more sideways.
I will let everyone else argue about which is which on that subject.
We have and will run all 4 flashers doing this but to start I would mix in some spoons and you should be a little less tangle free.
Good luck! Ask more questions as im sure some of that is greek.
I will find you a video in a minute here.
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