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I have a Okuma Magda Pro 20DX as my slide diver reel. While the reel is OK, it works fine for the amount I use the slide diver.

Again, not in Vermont or New York, but I have caught a lot of togue this year on the Storm 360GT Searchbait. Trolled at 1.0-1.7 without any bling. As an aside, the lakes I fish are running 5-7 degrees colder than this time last year and the salmon and trout are still in the top 20 feet of the water ...

Not in Vermont or New York If fishing solo, I run one rod off a downrigger with a sliding cheater. The other is usually a segmented leadcore with an inline board. I adjust to what the fish are telling me. If another person is with me, I use 2 riggers and either 2 leadcores or one slide diver. Again,...

As I said a ton of great information. I posted this back in August 2017.



Borrowed a friend's Fishhawk this past weekend. I have no idea how that effects the dive rate.

As a test, I trolled at 2.0 #3 setting and 50 pound braid. Averaged a 2.7:1 dive rate

95 got me to 35
100 -38
110- 40
120-45

Now that you say that Keith, I was trolling cross wind and it was the downwind rod. I had picked up a fish on that hump and was making another pass in the opposite direction.

You have to be right. I don’t think of current in relatively small lakes and along straight stretches of shorelines. As a said the learning curve is fun.

It would surprise me as it is a smaller lake, about 1000 acres.

Great information in this thread. I consider myself pretty proficient about most techniques but the light bite is giving me fits. Just this weekend I bumped bottom in 34 feet of water with 60 feet of line out on a #3 setting. That is with 50 pound braid, 2.2 to 2.3 mph SOG, and trolling in as straig...

Thanks Ron

Thank you Reelax

Thinking of pulling the trigger on a TD and have a couple of questions. Battery life: Website says a 20 year life expectancy. Is this correct? Usage: My main reason is to find temperate but I would also like to see depth when running a Lite Bite. Every video I have seen shows the unit clipped to the...

I typically use a small duolock snap.

Take this for what it is worth. We did our maiden voyage this past weekend. Had to go 3 hours south to find open water but we did. I set up 2 rods with 8 pound Seguar fluorocarbon and 2 rods with 8 pound Sunline fluorocarbon, just to see. Saturday afternoon we boated 19 fish, with the Seaguar being ...

I used 50 pound power pro on my slide diver rod

15 pound Big Game, micro swivel, 6 to 8 feet of Seaguar fluorocarbon leader. I do not like braid for most trolling situations.