Trolling planers

[ganni]

hey blueskip when it comes to homemade stuf the maltese are hadr to beat. many friends of mine have done theirs and its also electric and not manual haha.  these types of downriggers however, unlike the STIM type don't work at elevated trolling speeds

[bigboy]

I am interested to do one myself but i get mixed up on how am i going to do the spool to hold the wire

[ganni]

i dont think its work it to do it urself!! krystalfishing have models at just Lm63, they are very good and robust

[ramio]

I bought a downrigger about 6 years ago, but never got to use it enough. I noticed as Skip said even with an 8kilo weight it still came up at speeds more than 3-4 knts. Then I got the Zwing and found it very effective at bigger trolling speeds. The only thing I noticed is the tremendous tension it puts on the pole and mounting bracket.
Anybody trying for a home made device be carefull of this.

[skip]

Ramio, in fact due to that tension, it's recommended that you run it off a cleat and not off your downrigger pole, as you risk damaging the downrigger.

[rob1974]

Call me stupid, but I cannot understand how the shower ring slides down to the planer once the lure is attched to it.

Please help me understand!!

Rob

[skip]

Rob,

Basically you deploy the planer, then you put the shower ring over that deployed line, then deploy your lure a bit short of the distance you want it to be away from the Z-Wing, and wrap a heavy duty rubber band (rubber band type depending on lure drag) around your deployed line (the one with the lure) and hook into the shower ring (depending on the shower ring type, either tape it closed or it has a plastic lock).

Because the boat is moving at say 5 knots when you drop the shower ring in the water the forward motion pressure on the shower ring causes it to slide down the tether and stop at the Z-Wing. You are forcing the water over the shower ring and then providing a direct path for it to slide down.

Sounds a bit odd but it works!

[blueskip]

Not if, you attach a thin wire to the ball, & secure it forard of it, attached by a clip to a hand rail or similar, you can the troll at quite high speed without the weight rising very much. Saying that if you are going at "ramming speed" anything is going to tend to waterski behind you How fast do you troll?
blueskip

[skip]

5.5 - 6.5 knots when targetting Alungi etc.

[blueskip]

Do you water ski while you are waiting for a strike? that must be WOT for some of the boats I saw "chugging" out of Marsascala? some of them sounded like they had the engine out of my old cement mixer driving them, I dont think some of them could reach 6.5 knots if you dropped them out of an aeroplane!
blueskip

[Kaptan Jr]

Hi guys I bought a pair of "yellow bird side surface planers" has anybody here aver used them for big game fishing or trolling please?

http://www.planerboard.com/pages/planerboards.html

[shanook]

Hi buddy, the side planers act like outriggers they are for spreading your lures. Dont go too fast and drive in as much a straight line as possible. u have to have rings with release clips to move the rod line along the planer line. Not very easy to use but they make good spreaders for multiple lures.