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| We are wondering what style of divers you guys might recommend and why, for use behind a planer board mast and otter boat setup, to get the lures down deeper? What size? What brand? etc.
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Location: Central Wisconsin | I've trolled an awful with my Dad on Lake Michigan for salmon/trout and have never seen or heard of anyone using a dipsy diver (or any other kind) behind a planer board, or off a mast. |
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Location: oswego, il | You will need a long leader, 6' or you will flip the dipsey and it will ride on the surface. I have caught fish trolling a vibrax behind one but did not have luck with bigger bucktails and crankbaits on a 3ft leader. |
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| Used them on Lake Erie trolling Michigan Stinger spoons for Walleye, fished from Grand River to Cleveland limited fast. |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | I have lures that dive 30 feet and really don't want to target below that depth. I tried running shallow running lures behind a dipsey but never under a board and really didn't feel I was gaining enough to justify the extra hardware. Except for the great lakes we are allowed 1 line and I'm always going first to a flat line and choosing my lure according to the depth I want to fish .On the great lakes my second line will be an inline planer. |
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Location: Money, PA | Being a lake Erie walleye troller as well, I have tried dipsys for the larger harder pulling cranks and they do not work effectively. I even tried magnums....If you want to get cranks down deeper, I would suggest inline snap weights. Beef up to minumum of 6 oz. weights and up to pounders....You definitely have to slow down the troll a bit to get your presentation down to your desired depth...then experiment. |
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| I run smaller baits like kriscos and grandmas on magnum dipsy divers without the ring all the time. I don't know about running them off a board tho. If you want to get deeper off a board I'd go with a snap weight or a deeper running bait |
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