Downrigger

[MaxiTroll]

Hey everyone,

Looking to buy a downrigger for my boat but can’t decide. I mostly will use it for trolling around the harbour and offshore around longreef. Anyone have any recommendations on what downrigger would be best, would really appreciate it.

Thanks. 

[bookwa]

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[JonD]

I use a canon st10 with a swivel mount and easy to remove rod holder mount. I switched the wire over to braid to reduce the hum which sometimes attracts sharks. My model has an extendable arm and metric counter, which helps with accurately allows me to drop baits at depths I can see fish on the sounder. In saying that I can easily see the down rigger weight and bait on my sounder as well as fish checking out the bait etc.

I will often use a wire homemade baskets with concrete in the base filled with old fish frames to get burley directly under the boat at anchor. Ive also made these baskets to accomodate Gopro cameras.

Edited February 11, 2023 by JonD