Thread: Trolling question

depends on how deep you fishing. then if you're pushing jigs, you don;t need as much weight added as you do with plain hooks. Just hooks and minners, maybe 1 1/2 oz should keep you fairly straight down

3/4 oz should be plenty

When I power troll that fast, I use 2oz. My buddy Les Smith uses 3.

With the 2-3oz weight, you can figure the curve like pushing cranks. The weight will be about 2/3 of the line out. I use the color coded braid to know the amount of line out.

Fixxin to blow the mythe out of the water, it isn't nessecary for your line to be STRAIGHT down, 1 oz will have some lean to it at 1 mph but that's ok. Used to try to weight mine to the point they were straight down but have learned by fishing with some folks that are pretty darn good at it that it just don't have to be that way.

Just fishing hooks & minners about 6 feet deep . I usually use 1/2 oz slow trolling, I've never tried fast trolling. Thanks for the help.

Ditto what Reese says

Originally Posted by buckbrush

Just fishing hooks & minners about 6 feet deep . I usually use 1/2 oz slow trolling, I've never tried fast trolling. Thanks for the help.

truth is there is nothing written in stone, one day one thing will work the next something else. I hammered em at Enid last fall pushing at 1.8 one day and the next couldn't buy a bite no matter how I fished. Guess what I am trying to say is, don't be skeered to try something different or change things up, heck if what you are doing aint working it wont hurt to do something else.
Good luck

I just had this discussion with a fishing buddy of mine yesterday. He asked how I caught so many more fish than my dad last weekend(i caught 45 and he caught 8). I tood him it had to be that only use a small piece of split shot about 12" above my jig head and dad uses that big 2 oz egg sinker above his.
Most of the fish i caught i could barely see a small change in the way the line was laying. The fish never hit it real hard the whole day. I believe he was getting bites but just couldn't see it.