Using a downrigger is a great way to get the lures WAYYY down there, but it's a pain when you get one on and it tangles all of your lines up. ❋ Unknown (2009)
He used what's called a downrigger, a tool that helps lower the bait to the depths of the target. ❋ Unknown (2010)
You will have to really search for fish this time of year so I put sliders (a lure on a five foot leader with a snap swivel you hook on your monofiliament going to the downrigger ... it drops to the center of the line bellow about half way down to the weight) on each downrigger line with a Northport Nailer or similar spoon in black/silver, white/gold or blue/green. ❋ Unknown (2009)
We run ours twenty to thirty feet deep on downriggers, with between fifty and one hundred feet of line before clipping onto the downrigger quick release. ❋ Unknown (2009)
This Luhr-Jensen spoon is critical in trolling lakes for trout by flat line, lead-core, or downrigger. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Not shown (not installed for this trip) were the trolling motor and battery, standing platform and lean bar, ashtray, beer cooler, wheel/keel, downrigger, and GPS unit. ❋ Tim Romano (2007)
In his own words, "to get a Lowrance with networking so I can add data collection, watch how the downrigger behaves on screen, and do some lake bottom contour mapping." ❋ Tim Romano (2007)
A one man pontoon rigged with multiple rods, networked sonar, and a downrigger - wow! ❋ Tim Romano (2007)
He now tells me that he's found a small enough downrigger to bolt onto the back for creatures of the deep. ❋ Tim Romano (2007)
We've been anchored in a new spot fortwo hours and the only action has been a fish lost when the downrigger failedto release. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Instead, they're filled by the whine of the downrigger wiresvibrating in the current. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The King and Clymer hoot at the spectacle, and for maybe 15seconds I fight the fish by hand, no downrigger to blunt the electric jolt ofevery surge, no limber rod to take the brunt of each swift change of directionwhen the fish turns its fat, hatchet-head belly into the current. ❋ Unknown (2006)
McPhee's line has wrapped ingloriously around the downrigger apparatus. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Other speakers include Scott Haugen on bow hunting for elk; Buzz Ramsey on spring chinook and steelhead tactics; Pat Murphy on waterfowl hunting with a dog; Tom Nelson on downrigger fishing tricks; Glen Berry on hunting and calling techniques for elk; Bill Kratzer on plug fishing for steelhead and salmon; Kelly Laatsch on fly-fishing strategies; and Bill "Swanny" ❋ Unknown (2011)
When the water clarity is good, 4 feet or better, and the water temperature is 50 to 56 degrees, we troll a J-9 Rapala (clown or gold/black), roughly 5 to 10 feet deep (I use a downrigger to control depth) along the far corner of the dam and along the shore to the mouth of Scow Canyon. ❋ Chronic [email protected] (Tom Stienstra (2011)
Got into them right away ... with first one on a clear FBR ™ at 90 feet depth on downrigger. ❋ Unknown (2010)
