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Location: Racine, Wi | Sled, go with a track set up if you can. Either Burt trax or whatever (I have to look it up to remember). Makes life very easy for moving things around, plus you can mount your riggers to it and can mount tracks anywhere. If I would have seen them when I originally set mine up, I would have gone that route.
As for riggers, are you looking for manual or electric? For manuals, check out the Cannon Uni Troll 5s have a 24" non telescoping boom, or the uni troll 10's have a telescoping boom (those are the ones I have). It's nice having the telescoping boom as you can get the wire away from your motor a bit more. Not necessary, but nice. You can search some of the great lake boards for some good deals on used ones (not sure if I can post this, but www.glangler.com is a good sight for this).
As for rigger balls, I wouldn't go less than 10#s. I run 10's and they work just fine for me.
Rods and reels are another ball of wax, but the Okuma Convectors are an awesome reel and lots of guys use these (the Magdas work as well, but there is a notible difference between the two). Rods, you'd want some down rigger rods (usually shorter, say 7', Dipsy rods, and board rods (if you want to run lead core or copper, you'd have devoted set ups for this). Let me know what questions you have about rods, and I can try to answer ya. |
