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ONE!!!!!!!
Weren't much to him and he may have just felt sorry for me but I got one my first time out trying to pull cranks on my own. Got to get the sensativity figured out on this depth finder tho, sure woulld help.:D
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Here's a pic from Saturday morning when we were coming out from the marina at Grenada.
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and the addiction begins
Oh yeah. Fished hard Saturday in the TOW tourney, got off the lake and loaded up and went to Memphis to bass pro to get me some rod holders and stuff.
Do yall find that the bandit chart is off a little? It's a good place to start for sure and it didn't take long to make some adjustments. 1.8 is all my boat will pull em but it will work for now.
you talking about off as in line out to depth ratio?
1.8 is plenty fast enough. I usually pull at 1.5 or so. Yesterday I was just catching one every now and then until I noticed on my depth finder that fish were holding at 10 ft. I switched from Bandit 300s to 200s and started catching more. I could also run the 200s farther behind the boat.
Yeah, it was close. Was pulling 300s so didn't have much line out, 55 feet should run 12 foot deep but woudn't get on the bottom until I came accross a point 10.5 feet deep (that's concidering my ducer was a foot in the water to start with). Not a big deal just figuring things out.
Is further behind the boat better?Quote:
Originally Posted by ScottV
Got to get this cheap depth finder figured out too. It didn't save my waypoints from Friday night and the sensetivity isnt good as I had hoped. Book says something about the ping setting, gonna try to tweak that.
Rees, the type line being used and the position of the rod tip (how high is it off the water) can make a little difference in the depth of the bait also
Yeah I was using 10 pound mono and had the rods about 1.5 feet off the water.
It just seems logical to me that further behind the boat would be better just in case the boat was spooking the fish a little. On the other hand, Major won the FJ at Washington, I think, pulling cranks with less than 20 ft of line out.
Yeah the fish I caught yesterday was on a rod that only had 35 feet out. Dont really know if it hurts or not. Was really surprised and the fish I caught close to my trolling motor this past spring.
I caught some at Lake Washington on 300's with 5' of line out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rees Guide
I usually troll with 35 to 50 ft of line out. Last year I was pulling off the sides in the front of the boat with different lengths of rods for line separation and I caught lots of fish with 35 ft of line out. With an 18 ft boat, that was 15 ft behind the boat. I found out it's a lot easier to pull out of the back though. Trying to land a fish from under an umbrella is tough. Lol
Gotta start somewhere.;) 'Least you werent skunked, and we've all been there before.
On the 200's. With the lip being shorter, they'll also have abit of a different wobble to them as well and that could make a big difference at times
I werent disappointed at all, just gonna get better.Quote:
Originally Posted by gabowman
DD, I just getting started and figured I could catch fish deeper with the 300s and still fish them shallow if needed. Will be getting some 200s but I got to crawl a little while. Used spinning rods with my line length marked with line stops and it seemed to work pretty well. Prolly give em another shot this afternoon.Quote:
Originally Posted by DonDon
Before it's over with, you'll have done broke the bank of trolling stuff Rees. LOL Side Imager is next, then Bandits, Storm Wiggle warts, l;ine counter reels, Braided line and a bunch of other stuff lol
To be honest DD it's cheaper than green carp fishing was and I didnt even eat them nasty things. Have spent more on a flippin stick and reel than what it gonna cost me to get 6 reel counters and rods.
I feel ya there rees. My carp rod was $170 and the reel to go on it was $150, and I had six to ten rods in the boat at any given time, not all that expensive but still ain't cheap by any means
Yeah, crappie fishin is cheaper for sure. Just need me one of those 2000 dollar HB's and a 1500 dollar TM and I'm set.
RoflRoflRofl
Next on the list for me is the TM... Man, I watched a youtube video or two of em last night and they are AMAZING! I'm about to start selling some of my guns to afford that dang thing!
Can you set the "offset" on your FF to the distance your ducer is in the water?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rees Guide
I was pulling cranks from 8-12' behind the boat.Quote:
Originally Posted by ScottV
Did that this morning, dang book has 480 pages and I'm afraid I'm learning all this crap not to be satisfied with it and have to start over.Quote:
Originally Posted by majflyboy