Thread: Crankbait lines

Cheapest line you can find for filler. I just ordered braided line on EBay...made in China but cheap. Gonna spool the last 100 yds or so with the braid. I'm trying hi vis yellow in 20/6. Will be first time for braid for me. Gonna try it.

Get you some good cutters for that braid so it will cut clean, got a pair just for cutting braid and they work great.

Originally Posted by Dee F

I respectfully disagree. They have to be accurate or you're just pulling crankbaits and praying for the best.

I suggest using 10 pound mono or braid with no larger diameter than 6 pound test. Reason.. Is there's more proven information/dive curves for 100's of different baits with those 2 lines than anything else.

I suggest buying you a trollers bible or get the precision trolling app on your phone, purchase the baits that you use and it's will blow your mind how accurate they are. Those guys have spend countless hours getting the data for that book/app. Look at precision trolling on YouTube and it'll show you how they gather information.

But, keep in mind, every boat does pull slightly different and.. Keep in mind that line length only counts for line in the water.

I pull with my rods horizontal/level. That's where everything is dead in accurate for me. When doing so if I see fish at 8' deep I can refer to precision trolling data to put my baits where I want them to be Insted of under the fish. After doing it so many times.. It's memorized now. I'm 100% confident.

But with all that said, it's accurate up to 14 feet deep give or take a little. After that the curve plays out and is in accurate for the baits I use, bandits, bombers, flicker shad, bad shad, Johnson CB shad,etc. I personally have never been able to hit a 16' bottom with the deepest diving baits I use without having to add weight.

Blah, blah, blah.... Write a book on trolling theory. The difference in a full spool and half full spool is negligible. I don't fish from a keyboard. In the real world, all my reels are set up the same. I let out line to my general target depth, staggering all lines by several feet. I get bit, I replicate what that one is doing, fine tuning as the day goes on. I have a laminated TROLLERS BIBLE card for reference, the app also. I appreciate you trying to educate me, but I "respectfully" say pfffffft.



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Originally Posted by Rees Guide

Get you some good cutters for that braid so it will cut clean, got a pair just for cutting braid and they work great.

Kids blunt scissors at Walmart work great. 1.50 a pair.

Originally Posted by feelay

Blah, blah, blah.... Write a book on trolling theory. The difference in a full spool and half full spool is negligible. I don't fish from a keyboard. In the real world, all my reels are set up the same. I let out line to my general target depth, staggering all lines by several feet. I get bit, I replicate what that one is doing, fine tuning as the day goes on. I have a laminated TROLLERS BIBLE card for reference, the app also. I appreciate you trying to educate me, but I "respectfully" say pfffffft.



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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA, BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

I WAS WAITING FOR IT!!!!!!!

Feelay..you are definitely dialed in..Time on the water is what it is about

[QUOTE=feelay;3242877]Blah, blah, blah.... Write a book on trolling theory. The difference in a full spool and half full spool is negligible. I don't fish from a keyboard. In the real world, all my reels are set up the same. I let out line to my general target depth, staggering all lines by several feet. I get bit, I replicate what that one is doing, fine tuning as the day goes on. I have a laminated TROLLERS BIBLE card for reference, the app also. I appreciate you trying to educate me, but I "respectfully" say pfffffft.



First of all.. We're all internet fishing... Everyone on this site is.. That's what it's here for. To talk fishing, opinions, advice,share stories, pics, etc. Post count determines who does the most internet fishing here!
.The difference between a half spool and full spool don't matter on line counter reels???Lol. I've heard it all. sounds like you need some educating!
And this comment coming from a person that is hired as a guide to take people fishing?? They might as well spend their time at a casino because you're gambling..... Period. I hope you have got the gambling out of the way days before their paid trip and have your stuff dialed in so they can start catching fish when they get there.
In the summer time, when most pull crankbaits, In the time you're spending gambling, you could be marking fish, and then be100% dead on, on how to put your baits on the fish, Insted of spending the time pulling and matching the lucky reel. Think about this.. While you're pulling and matching.. Others are already catching..
You can use that laminated dive card to fan you clients.. Because that's what it's gonna be good for with inaccurate reels. Half filled spool reel gonna show you having way more line out than you actually have. You're gonna look at a dive card and in reality be way shallower than you think you are. Doing it your way.. You're using your reel as a reference point. Not to say you don't catch fish.. But someone that has taken the time to calibrate, learn their depths and get "educated" WILL be wearing you out while you're spending the time hunting that perfect reference point on your uncalibrated line counter reels. I know this first hand... I was the guy doing the same thing years ago.. I quit "my ways" and started over doing it the most accurate way I found.

The original guy that opened this topic ask a question about line. I'm only gonna give a man advice on the right way that is proven to be right... The easiest way to do something correctly. Something that I am willing to back up. I trying to save them from the trails and errors that I went through and you're obviously going through now. Sure.. You're catching fish you're way.. But on those days when you don't catch a fish, do you know for sure if you were under them, or they werent as aggressive and you were to far above them.... Or do you just say.. They just ain't biting today??
I used your comment on the first post because line counter accuracy does matter and I don't want to lead someone to believe it doesn't. There's a reasons they are designed to count line accurately when calibrated. If someone buys them.. They should use them 100% to the reels capability. If you not gonna do that... You should save some dollars and just buy regular reels and used marked line.


I read all this and I gathered even more of an idea.. EZ, I think, posted he uses 40# braid that's the equivalent diameter to 10lb mono?? That opened up an idea for me.. I used to pull 10# mono because Of depth accuracy. I changed to braid because of durability.... But now that he's made me think... I may try this.. Why?? Because I can achieve the same accurate depths with a stronger line.. Then if I break off.. I will break at the snap swivel that I use.. Insted of breaking off line and having to recalibrate a reel. Might save me time.
Thanks for that info EZ

You a long winded dude, ain't ya? Lol
You worry about you, I'll worry about me. It ain't rocket science. Peace out


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