![]() ![]() The deeper your fishing, the less this seems to matter. ![]() Long setbacks are certainly beneficial sometimes. The lower setup pictured dives about 10ft and the upper setup probably rises 3-5 ft when trolled at 1.5mph with a 100ft setback before the downrigger ball. When trolling deeper than 30 ft, I usually run a shorter 20-30 ft setback to alleviate this problem, and it makes turning while trolling much easier! When the dodger is a known diving type, I just mentally add 10ft to the downrigger reading. then your downrigger reading is again accurate. To stop this rising effect, in the past I have added split shots above the dodger, just enough to keep it under the water. (for example, a teardrop dodger will rise higher with a large or heavy spinner that has a lot of drag in the water. Your lure behind the dodger has a massive effect on this depth though, but that's kinda complicated and dependant on dodger style. Most teardrop dodgers will actually rise somewhat (5 feet?), its difficult to keep them under the water after letting your line out, some cannot be trolled above 1mph without weight (or downrigger) without surfacing. I have checked this by trolling over a 12ft deep area without bottoming, then later bottoming when trolled over a 10ft deep area. Many of my 4 inch oval dodgers with a similar looking front and back lip actually dive about 10 feet when pulled at those speeds. I troll with a wide variety of dodgers and terminal tackle in shallow lakes. ![]()
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