Deep 6
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Seafever
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A flasher on a Deep Six will have a negative effect on it. probably pulling it up shallower.
When I use mine I just run spoons by themselves 5ft back of it.
The Deep Sixes come in different sizes.
I use a Chartreuse Number 1. With some added chrome cracked ice tape on it.
I can get down about 30ft running Tufline 80lb test on the main and letting out about at least 70ft of line.
Size of mainline has an effect on how deep they will go (drag factor). You get deeper with thinner main.
I use a 7ft fairly strong rod because of the drag.
The bigger deep Six goes deeper.....
I have no problem getting salmon on it without a flasher......
Have gotten big Lings on them too.
You can only go so fast with them. No problem for normal trolling speeds and a little bit faster.
I like using them around structure and reefs where I'm too jittery to go with downrigger balls.
If I used thinner Tufline like 30lb test etc I could probably get down deeper to 50 ft on the one I use.
The bigger Deep Six will go deeper........
When I use mine I just run spoons by themselves 5ft back of it.
The Deep Sixes come in different sizes.
I use a Chartreuse Number 1. With some added chrome cracked ice tape on it.
I can get down about 30ft running Tufline 80lb test on the main and letting out about at least 70ft of line.
Size of mainline has an effect on how deep they will go (drag factor). You get deeper with thinner main.
I use a 7ft fairly strong rod because of the drag.
The bigger deep Six goes deeper.....
I have no problem getting salmon on it without a flasher......
Have gotten big Lings on them too.
You can only go so fast with them. No problem for normal trolling speeds and a little bit faster.
I like using them around structure and reefs where I'm too jittery to go with downrigger balls.
If I used thinner Tufline like 30lb test etc I could probably get down deeper to 50 ft on the one I use.
The bigger Deep Six will go deeper........
Kildonan
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Pre-Downrigger days, my old man and I used them all the time. No flasher, just the planer and a 12ish foot leader to the terminal with two bead chain swivels tied into the leader. The terminal was usually a spoon of various descriptions, herring strip or 6 inch whole herring if it was later in the summer and the bigger migrating Chinook were around.
It was sometimes interesting using those long leaders when we hooked bigger Springs but that's just what we did. Lol.
Out the side they went, 50 or 60 pulls and you were in business. We caught shyteloads of fish with them.
It was sometimes interesting using those long leaders when we hooked bigger Springs but that's just what we did. Lol.
Out the side they went, 50 or 60 pulls and you were in business. We caught shyteloads of fish with them.
Dogbreath
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My best guess is about 40' using 25# mono-this Sockeye was caught using a Deep Six and so was another one that day.
Using a Flasher doesn't affect it all that much-6' Deep Six to Flasher and standard Hootchie lengths-Spoons as mentioned but they sometime are crazy effective with bait maybe because they move up 'n down a little with the currents as you troll.
Once just to see WTH I let out about 200' of line when we were out @ the Bell Bouy it kept going down, down, down but I'm not sure if I could have set the hook or was even fishing effectively.
Using a Flasher doesn't affect it all that much-6' Deep Six to Flasher and standard Hootchie lengths-Spoons as mentioned but they sometime are crazy effective with bait maybe because they move up 'n down a little with the currents as you troll.
Once just to see WTH I let out about 200' of line when we were out @ the Bell Bouy it kept going down, down, down but I'm not sure if I could have set the hook or was even fishing effectively.
Fishin'Zinn
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I tried it before I smartened up and got another downrigger back when I started fishing. If the currents are strong it can definitely have an adverse effect on this method. I don't have one on my boat anymore, but if you don't have downriggers they are a decent band-aid solution that works, just, not as well or predictably.
However, Kayak fishing I have used it, works great for that!
However, Kayak fishing I have used it, works great for that!
Tugcapitan
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No. 2 deep six will get a flasher down to 60'ish (50'-70') with 180' of
line out. Its a pain, but it works.
line out. Its a pain, but it works.
Sharphooks
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Using braid as your mainline will maximize depth---50 lb braid is just dandy. Some times those things out-fish downriggers and everything else---I think they get your stuff into the ZONE and keep it there if you maintain the right speed and orientation to the current.
With coho they should be outlawed they're so effective
With coho they should be outlawed they're so effective
JAC
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On the columbia river divers are more common than downriggers. They use the flasher that spin they are triangle shaped I can remember the name if them. Anyways these type of flasher don't have near the resistance of a normal flasher and should work better behind a diver. I think deep 6 are not as good as other divers either
The delta divers are the common divers on the Columbia. The most commonly used in-line flashers are the Yakima bait "Big Al's" flashers - http://www.yakimabait.com/products/big-als-4-fish-flash/
