What ounce weight do you use when power trolling with RoadRunners?
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What ounce weight do you use when power trolling with RoadRunners?
1oz you can go up to 1 mile a hour with it !!!
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It really depends on you, how fast, how deep you are running them. Lot of choices but I would say 2 oz to start with unless you are fishing deeper than 12 feet, 3 oz past that. I like to move over a 1mph if I can.
I prefer 3/4 oz just for rigging most days, moving 0.3 to 0.5 mph. 1 1/2 oz egg sinker with (2) 1/4 oz runners gets you 2 ounces of lead, I wouldn't run that no more than 1 mph (0.8 or 0.9 preferred) lines be under the boat otherwise. The faster you want to go the more weight you will need to keep your lines at a decent angle. Get a variety of weights on sinkers and road runners and experiment, a 2 ounce weight this time of year would be a good in between for starting off with.
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Originally Posted by Snubby
I made some up with 2oz and 3oz, 1/8th oz RR’s, but planning on moving a littler faster, 1-1.5mph. Need to just put em in the water and try em out.
You off to a good start! What rods you pushing with?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jwater
Denalis!!! 14’
Nice put 3 ounces on my 16's the other day, loaded up good but still was able to bully a big old gar with em', good rods!
I love em!!! Great rods.
Gotten to where I use them for everything, love me some white poles.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jwater
Yes sir, I’m just like you, just a great pole!!
I use 1 1/2 oz on my rigs
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Warmer the water the heavier the egg sinkers....
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I like to use at least a 2 oz weight. At 1.2 or so mph a heavier weight will hold the rig more vertical, running your jigs at different depths. I pour the inline trolling weights with the eyelets on the ends from 1/2 oz up to 4 oz. My rigs have snaps in the middle where I can change my weights. Attachment 308379
Man I like that, would cut down on making a bunch of different size rigs, just snaps and no actual swivelQuote:
Originally Posted by ScottV
I see the swivel on the top
Why would a heavy weight not be used to cover all speeds while power trolling . Do you use the lighter weights for spider rigging ? I am adding this technique soon and know nothing about it . Thanks in advance .
You can use the heavier weights for going slow speed when spider rigging but traditional methods are slower speeds mean less weight to keep the line vertical. When it gets cold i put a smaller egg sinker then when it warms up the other 10 months of the year i use a heavier sinker.
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I was curious because the older men on Enid 20 yrs .ago used 5 oz. weights all the time . That was the day of cane poles and taped on reels . lol :popcorn
I used to go to Tunica when I was a kid with a man who did the same thing. Had about five jigs on each line also. But he was moving really fast. Back then, didn’t know exactly how fast. I typically ise a 1/2 oz weight spider rigging/ slow trolling, but have recently been trying to power troll (push) roadrunners at a faster speed.
Depends on the bait weight. With quarter oz road runner I like 1 oz if speed doesn’t exceed 1.2mph. If I go faster I use 2 oz
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