Downrigger alternative for kayak
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Re: Downrigger alternative for kayak
use a Ezyrig with a heavy enough sinker on it.
so basically like your second picture but you can change weights to suit depth
so basically like your second picture but you can change weights to suit depth
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A few of the kayak guys have made up downriggers from cut down boat rods and large overheads for trolling on the lakes and a few other places. From memory it worked well and allowed them to pick their depth rather than guessing with sinkers etc.
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It looks like a murray cod / yellowbelly lure, might try it.ben475 wrote:maybe try a lure like a deep diving 50mm or is it 60mm ac slim invader, sposed to dive to 10m.
Similar to RMG Halco poltergeist.
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Re: Downrigger alternative for kayak
Seb85 wrote:It looks like a murray cod / yellowbelly lure, might try it.ben475 wrote:maybe try a lure like a deep diving 50mm or is it 60mm ac slim invader, sposed to dive to 10m.
Similar to RMG Halco poltergeist.
ive heard they catch trout too.
i was going to give em a try oneday, along with the rmg poltergeist i think they dive to around 8.6m or similar.
i was trolling tassies and hard bodies back in spring time, only caught them early morn but the sounder seemed to be showing quite a few fish around the 12-15m depth, hard to know what they were but i thought next time it might be worth a try jigging with soft plastics or other jigs, i dont know about over here but in the u.s. they do quite a bit of deep water jigging for big lake trout.
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Re: Downrigger alternative for kayak
mazman wrote:A few of the kayak guys have made up downriggers from cut down boat rods and large overheads for trolling on the lakes and a few other places. From memory it worked well and allowed them to pick their depth rather than guessing with sinkers etc.
I made and used a downrigger to fish up north offshore and it worked well - how ever the problem I had was getting out of the way of the fish fast enough
for trout in deep lakes it may be fine - I hooked ether a Spanish Mack or maybe a Wahoo and the speed it went around the down rigger cord I had no hope and the line was cut off - not the downrigger cord
some guys use an old Alvey reel with a star drag and lower by backing off the drag enough to control the down rigger weight dropping - and tighten the drag to hold the position ( depth ) some use multi coloured braid to guess the depth
I used a cheap Ebay lever drag reel using the drag again to lower the weight but the weight would drop in the sounder beam so I could set the depth watching the mark on the sounder - strangely the weight would move back out of the sounder beam once paddling clearing up the screen
last year I just used a sinker fixed to the line with a rubber band for the line I wonted to troll deeper all though I have toyed with giving a downrigger another try - it does work but is a bit more to manage when a fish is on --- hope that is some help
I may have some pics of my old set up but will have to look for them
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Re: Downrigger alternative for kayak
Wow, few ideas there.
Thank you all, i might play around and try a few, see which one works.
Might wait for autumn though, a little too hot to troll for trout atm? Or worth trying?
Thank you all, i might play around and try a few, see which one works.
Might wait for autumn though, a little too hot to troll for trout atm? Or worth trying?
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Re: Downrigger alternative for kayak
How about a mini down rigger
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre ... 3502109059
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre ... 3502109059
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Re: Downrigger alternative for kayak
Looks like a beauty.smile0784 wrote:How about a mini down rigger
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre ... 3502109059
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Ooow nice. I wonder how small. I might send a message to the seller.smile0784 wrote:How about a mini down rigger
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre ... 3502109059
Thanks!