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Prolly right in front of me, but, when you see on charts the distance back and speed= depth of lure, where does the distance back start from on the fishermans end ? Rodtip, reel, back of boat, surface of water....... ?
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Surface of the water.
Where the line meets the water. The line between the rod tip and the water doesn’t count.
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At the water surface.
Best bet is let your lure back till it starts to swim then reset your line counter.
Technically, if you put the rod back into the same holder and let out the amount of line you just caught a crappie on, you're still good.
Best advise I’ve seen on this subject. Makes perfect since. Eliminates the guessing of the line out of the water to a tee.Quote:
Originally Posted by M R Dux
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It's easier just to count from the rod tip and forget all that other stuff
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Take MR DUX advice, that's how I do it also.
If you do not change holders eventually you will get a target depth ., Makes no difference what your reels say if you can recreate . One side 50,60 70 80 . other 75,85, 95,105 . :twocents fish on . Very rare that people have same amount of line on reels anyways . Going to be a difference to some degree .
I use line counters on my rods but I've gone with others who just cast them out and go and we still caught fish. Its harder to repeat what works without the line counters though. Sometimes if we went for a while without catching anything I'd flip the bail and let a little more line out on one or two rods but it would be almost impossible to know exactly how much was out to begin with, how much more I let out by flipping the bail and letting line run out for a few seconds, etc...
I have more confidence when using my line counters but I wouldn't let the lack of line counters stop me from going and trying to catch a few.
people used a magic marker and a razor blade to mark line for years .
power pro depth hunter line takes all the guesswork out and you can use any reel you want.
On a regular bait caster and spinning reel you can measure out say 50 feet at home and take say a red sharpie and mark across the spool and then go out to 100 feet and take a black sharpie and mark across the spool and when you start seeing red come off the spool you're around 50 feet and when you see black then you are at 100 feet. Not precise but it will get you closer than guessing.