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| Great board...first time poster. I have a couple of questions regarding using dipsey divers or slide divers for trolling dawgs, shallow cranks ( slammers, jakes ). How fast can you troll a dipsey or a slide? Can you troll at 4-5mph with these? Does the dipsey/slide take action away from the shallow crank? I am leaning towards going with the slide diver because you can let more line out from the diver for stealth situations, but was concerned about trolling speed and lure action before purchasing.
Thanks in advance for the input.
Rob |
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Location: oswego, il | I have trolled dipseys at those speeds and so far so good with some baits. Seem to do good with bucktails and baits with less drag. tried jakes but they turned the dipsey over and it surfaced. maybe a longer leader would help that, still have to experiment. My leaders were 36" have not tried any other diving stuff yet. |
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Location: Holly, MI | The dipsey will not take away from the action, it will intensify it. In clear water watch your crank bait with a long lead then with a short lead. With the short lead it will have more action. The dipsey will be stationary in the water compared to the lure (both moving forward of course) and act as an anchor point or short lead. I hav not tried dipseys for skis (use them always for salmon) but I have used downriggers to fight weedy trolling conditions. Please post back to let us know how it works out for you. |
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Location: Edina, MN | I routinely troll Dispsy's up to 6 w/o having them roll out. The faster you go, the less you will be able to run them to the side. High speed at 0 setting low speed can be whatever you want. They will work on most any bait that does not dive hard on its own. Jakes will probably cause them to surface but a shallow Raider, Bull Dawg, bucktail, spinnerbait, spoon etc would work fine. Be sure to get the heavy snubbers so the fish can't use the Dispy for leverage to shake off. I prefer a Dipsy to a slide diver and feel that the disk is more of an attractor than something that turns fish off. |
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