Seafever
Well-Known Member
BlindMonkey:-
When using wire:-
Wire goes through pulley.
As you troll, pulley is pulled back on an angle.
Wire is making contact with the edge of the pulley.
Because of tightness at the pulley swivel, the pulley may not go back far enough as it's supposed to.
As you raise or lower the wire while underway it makes contact with the pulley housing and will wear a groove in the edge sometimes.
If you are at a dead stop and raise the wire, there is less chance of this happening because the pulley has gone back to straight up and down.
Now you switch to braid and those grooves are still in the pulley housing.
Your pulley swivel still does not swing freely....so the braid is rubbing on the pulley just like the wire.
The old grooves in the pulley housing from the wire now chafe your braid.....
and the next trip out:- goodbye cannonball.
Generally:- Since really big salmon are much more sensitive to voltage than smaller salmon you would think that the bigger the salmon the more finicky with the voltage one would have to be.
I doubt that anybody actually nails their voltage dead on...even with a black box....unless your wire is brand new.
After a couple times in the chuck the wire starts to get a patina of surface oxidation/corrosion on it......
The black box just tells you how much voltage is going to the wire......it doesn't tell you the actual effect being dissipated from the surface-corroded patina-covered wire.
And then you have the wire length/voltage disparity.
If one side is at 75ft and the other side is at 200ft.........you can't balance the voltage because they are both fed from the same box.........and Scotty DOES NOT recommend
using individual black boxes per side.
You get a voltage drop when you go down deep so to compensate you have to jack the voltage.......which makes your shallow line too hot.
(You could unplug the shallow side of course....but then because it's wire you don't know what your actual voltage would be on that side......the voltage from the other side is going to affect it even though the shallow side is unplugged because it is all part of the anode /cathode matrix).
It is also unclear to me how the statement can be made that if one's lure is 30ft back of the wire the effect of voltage is nullified.............yet the claim is made that the voltage attracts fish from far and wide..........
When using wire:-
Wire goes through pulley.
As you troll, pulley is pulled back on an angle.
Wire is making contact with the edge of the pulley.
Because of tightness at the pulley swivel, the pulley may not go back far enough as it's supposed to.
As you raise or lower the wire while underway it makes contact with the pulley housing and will wear a groove in the edge sometimes.
If you are at a dead stop and raise the wire, there is less chance of this happening because the pulley has gone back to straight up and down.
Now you switch to braid and those grooves are still in the pulley housing.
Your pulley swivel still does not swing freely....so the braid is rubbing on the pulley just like the wire.
The old grooves in the pulley housing from the wire now chafe your braid.....
and the next trip out:- goodbye cannonball.
Generally:- Since really big salmon are much more sensitive to voltage than smaller salmon you would think that the bigger the salmon the more finicky with the voltage one would have to be.
I doubt that anybody actually nails their voltage dead on...even with a black box....unless your wire is brand new.
After a couple times in the chuck the wire starts to get a patina of surface oxidation/corrosion on it......
The black box just tells you how much voltage is going to the wire......it doesn't tell you the actual effect being dissipated from the surface-corroded patina-covered wire.
And then you have the wire length/voltage disparity.
If one side is at 75ft and the other side is at 200ft.........you can't balance the voltage because they are both fed from the same box.........and Scotty DOES NOT recommend
using individual black boxes per side.
You get a voltage drop when you go down deep so to compensate you have to jack the voltage.......which makes your shallow line too hot.
(You could unplug the shallow side of course....but then because it's wire you don't know what your actual voltage would be on that side......the voltage from the other side is going to affect it even though the shallow side is unplugged because it is all part of the anode /cathode matrix).
It is also unclear to me how the statement can be made that if one's lure is 30ft back of the wire the effect of voltage is nullified.............yet the claim is made that the voltage attracts fish from far and wide..........
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