Search:

Okay, we've been back for a while now. We managed to fish Heron on one day, believe it was Aug. 1st. We caught 7 between the two of us trolling from kayaks. We used 18lb lead core line (3 colors...

Thanks again for the help, I understand everything up to the dodger/snubber. Right now a buddy at work bought me all of his old pac nw terminal tackle (mostly trout and salmon gear). I have one of...

So deep 6 or weighted line, then dodger, then this apex lure in watermelon color? ...

Okay, I'm getting pumped up about our trip to Heron, we are completely noobs at fishing for Kokanee and Lake Trout. I've caught brown and cut-throat up in ID before on light spinning and Rapala...

Nice reel, but I'm not digging for grouper any more :)

Can someone point me to a good diagram or instruction on what banana weights are and how to use them? There's a good description at the...

Great information, thanks. We were initially thinking about downriggers (simple with line/weight/release) but didn't want to make it too complicated. We've never had Kokanee and really want to...

Hey gang,

Heading to Lake Heron in northern NM 2nd week of August. We've never been Kokanee fishing and will only have Kayaks with fish/depth finder. I suppose we need to resort to jigging and...

Heading here the second week of August. We will be fishing from sailing kayaks and plan to just use a fish finder and jigging. We've never fished for Kokanee and need some tips on lures and good...

So is a duo-lock like a swivel/clip? I follow your drift, sounds good.

skookum9,

Thank you for taking the time to write that up...very informative! Well then, who knows that braid on there may have mono backing on it already, I can email the fellow that sold them to...

Okay SuperD and others...what's the deal with mono backing? So right now I have an Abu Garcia 5500c3 on a 7' medium action rod and this Diawa: ...

Okay so really slow. I guess the real question now is if the down-rigger will really be at a 45 degree angle at this speed and depth?

I calculated 40' of down-rigger to maintain 35' depth at a 30...

Yep and I precisely follow you...kind of like knowing the pulls out when using planes like the pink lady etc. So, I'm a rookie, heck not even that, so I can only speculate...hummm...let's see:
...

Thanks for the quick reply SuperD...the 4lbs sounds more manageable. I'll be sure to share this link with my father-in-law. I have zero down-rigger experience but at least he has used them in the...

Newbie here...first post :)

So did a search on down-rigger weights and viola I'm here. So a quick intro:

I've caught only about 6 fresh-water trout in my life (German Brown and Cut-Throat on...