Pulling crankbaits with in line weights chart.......pics

[Cane Pole]

Transducer sled in now working and working good. Pictured is blueball operating the sled. He is the official sled operator.

The sled is about 20 foot back in the picture. Blueball is searching for the lure and weight. The lure is a 300 Bandit and the in line weight is the torpedo type weighing one (1) ounce set out 20 foot aft.

In the sonar picture, you see the sled find both the weight and the bandit. When both the bandit and weight are in the cone angle, you see a solid line on both. The top line is the weight and the bottom line is the bandit.

When both bandit and weight are solid in the cone, blueball jockeys the sled to find minimum depth, thus giving the true depth of both the weight and the bandit. That sled is a complicated little rascal, yet simple to use.

It took about an hour to figure out how to operate all this stuff. We proceeded to chart depths and speeds for the one ounce weight. our speeds were:, 1.2, 1.5, 1.8. 2.1 These are nominal speeds that match the behavior of my trolling motor and my Merc engine.

We are just getting started and have already viewed some interesting characteristics of crank baits. What I discover here will also apply to pushing the crank baits. My TI 33 scientific calculator says so. I will be changing the angle of the poles to see what affect this may have on the baits also. We ran out of time.

Life goes on and the carp grow bigger.