You guys talked about running your crankbaits at 100 to 150 feet of line out with Bandit 300s in several recent threads. How high above the water's surface are your pole tips running?
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You guys talked about running your crankbaits at 100 to 150 feet of line out with Bandit 300s in several recent threads. How high above the water's surface are your pole tips running?
Less than a foot on most of mine. ATM's are near vertical. Haven't seen Handi's setup.
same here -- practically parallel to water surface, but I don't have line counters (yet)
I have two straight off the back that are set pretty high so they can easily be seen. The next two are lower and angled at a 45 degree away from the side of the boat just behind the seats. Our next set are low to the water and at a right angle infront of the seats. I guess we get a few tangles, mainly because I'm not keeping straight when she is letting out or reeling in.
Sunday a boat came over to us thinking we were somebody else. We were pulling 150 back. They skirted around us a pretty good distance back. I was surprised when they fouled our lines. I figured the lines would be deeper than they were. 30 pound slick 8 and suffix 832. By the way these braids are much tamer than regular power pro.
Braid won't run the baits as deep as mono, it floats.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gomer Snerd
Mine are 1' - 5'. Handi's are about a 1' or so.
Never thought of that. Here goes another line change on about 3 reels. gonna leave the others braid. Better idea just order 3 new reels. About as cheap as that line I just spooled on.Quote:
Originally Posted by feelay
Thanks Guys. So with 100' of line your cranks are running about 14.7' deep and with 150' of line cranks are at about 17' deep (subtracting 1' from the precision crankbait charts for the distance of pole tip above water). Is my reasoning correct?
My chart says 130' back is running 17' down.
Yeah, I didnt think that was what mine said but werent going to go look.
My chart says 17' deep for 130' of line and 18' deep for 150' of line. Don't we have to subract a foot from the depth due to pole being a foot above water (17' - 1' = 16')? Just trying to understand this.....Quote:
Originally Posted by feelay
Y'all think too hard. Run 'em back til ya start getting bit. I ain't sweatin' over 1' here or there.
Wasn't trying to split hairs...just trying to figure out effect if I run my poles higher......for instance, if I ran them 4 foot above surface do I have to subtract 4 foot from depth shown on chart? I think the answer is yes, but just trying to confirm.
I don't think it need to be so precise that you have to worry about it. I have 6 poles most of the time and run them all a few feet different. Seem that most of the time as long as they are within 10' or so, they'll get bit.
Where can i find a chart
Attachment 132878Quote:
Originally Posted by Marine
Thanks maby i can do something for you sometime
If you're a marine you already have.
Since it is under tension while trolling and being thinner diameter, braid will run deeper. Braid will ride higher in the water column than mono/flouro/copoly in a no tension situation.Quote:
Originally Posted by feelay
You might be right, but I don't have scuba gear to verify it. You like it, use it. I don't, so I won't.Quote:
Originally Posted by bfish
My holders sit around three to four feet above the surface of the water, I've been pulling pretty much in the same range 130- 150 for about two months. I really don't think that the height of my rods in my boat is making that much difference to where my baits are running in the water. I run my center rod with the tip pointed up because it seems to help me detect the bite better on that rod. I let it out to the same depth as the other rods that are positioned lower and closer to the surface of the water and I seem to catch just as many on that rod. I understand the logic and thinking but I really don't think that I will make much difference.