Quote Originally Posted by ski trip View Post
I'm still trying to muddle through my idea. I can see that if you had a 16' rod and an 8' rod on the same bar, raising the 16' rod tip a foot would raise the 8' rod less distance. Kinda the reverse of firing a rifle at 100 yards and missing by 2" would be a greater miss at 200 yards, and would increase at a greater rate with distance out. But if you had all rods the same length, say 14' foot rods, wouldn't rotating the bar to raise one rod to 6" higher from the water raise all 14' rods attached to that bar the same distance? Seems like that would be true, regardless of it's angle to the water? Seems like the rotation of the rod should produce the same effect at the rod tip of all rods of the same length attached to that bar? But hey! What do I know! Never was accused of being the brightest bulb on the tree when it came to math, geometry, etc.! Just sayin'.....
You are correct. I understand what you are saying and that is why I have always adjusted mine one at at time when changing between pushing and pulling because when I rotate the top bar it changes all my holders (kinda hard to explain). I think some of the folks are talking about having a different weight person in the back of the boat at different times thus changing the height of rod tips from trip to trip. If you have them set for the length rods, then rotating the one bar will not get you exact but should get real close. Plus, I do not know many people that push with a combination of 16' and 8' rods.