Seafever
Well-Known Member
There was a company that made a clip-on transmitter for the downrigger near the ball. So you would know your real ball depth. It was discontinued......it had problems, like, you had to lower it down and then it read depth for 15 seconds and turned itself off. You then wound it back up to the surface to find out what it said. Not good.
I heard Canon puts a device that tells ball depth on some of their downriggers......but I'm not a fan of Canon downriggers due to their pulsing ion-voltage wire lines.
Anybody know if anybody makes an attatchable device that transmits back to the surface for ball depth?
I use the "guesstimation" tables..........but they aren't too accurate.....the other day I had 220ft of line out in 185ft of water and I wasn't even nibbling the bottom. Got a fish on and coasted into 169ft of water. Still didn't make bottom contact even though the portside rigger was not wound up and we were almost dead stopped at one point.
Notice To Tackle Manufacturers.....
We need these.......it should be able to float to surface if you break your ball off on a rough bottom. It should also have a built -in homing beacon signal so that we can find it again when it floats up.
I heard Canon puts a device that tells ball depth on some of their downriggers......but I'm not a fan of Canon downriggers due to their pulsing ion-voltage wire lines.
Anybody know if anybody makes an attatchable device that transmits back to the surface for ball depth?
I use the "guesstimation" tables..........but they aren't too accurate.....the other day I had 220ft of line out in 185ft of water and I wasn't even nibbling the bottom. Got a fish on and coasted into 169ft of water. Still didn't make bottom contact even though the portside rigger was not wound up and we were almost dead stopped at one point.
Notice To Tackle Manufacturers.....
We need these.......it should be able to float to surface if you break your ball off on a rough bottom. It should also have a built -in homing beacon signal so that we can find it again when it floats up.
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