Description
This book is the bible for learning to use and operate downriggers. Dick Pool, the author, has used and designed downriggers for over thirty years. A number of the innovations on modern downriggers are a result of his work. The book covers key subjects like how to choose a downrigger, how to rig it for best results and how much weight you need for different applications.
Softcover
111 Pages
Many Pictures and Illustrations in Color and Black and White
Contents:
- How Downriggers Work
- Fishing With a Downrigger
- The release Mechanism
- Four reasons Downriggers Catch More Fish
- Choosing a Downrigger
- Downrigger Do's & Dont's
- Electrolysis & Wire Hum
- Multiple Lines on one Downrigger
- Downrigger Planers for high Speed Trolling
- Downriggers for Salmon
- Downriggers for Trout & Walleye
- Downriggers for Halibut
- Downriggers for King Mackerel
- Downriggers for Sharks
- Downriggers for Big Game Fish
- Downriggers Mounting Technics
- Common Downrigger Questions
Index:
- Albacore
- Aluminum Boats
- Amps & Power Draw
- Big Jon
- Black Box
- Boom Length
- Bottom Tracking
- Cable
- Cannon
- Clutch Brake
- Common Downrigger Questions
- Counter
- Dodgers & Flashers
- Dorado
- Downrigger Spool
- Drag Brake
- Drop Back leader lengths
- Electric Downriggers
- Electric Efficiency
- Electronic Fish Finders
- Gimbal Mount
- Halibut
- Huntington Planer
- King mackerel
- Kokanee
- Laketrout
- Marlin
- Mounting
- Penn
- Planers
- Portable Mounts
- Positive Ions
- Premature Release
- Pulley
- Rail Mount
- Release Clip
- Release Tension
- Rod Holder Location
- Rods, Reels & Lines
- Salmon
- Sharks
- Speed of Retrieve
- Stacking
- Striped Bass
- Swivel Mount
- Thermocline
- Tracking the Bottom
- Trout
- Tuna
- Two Rods on One Downrigger
- Wahoo
- Walker
- Walleye
- Weight Recommendations
- Wire Hum
- Z Wing Planer