i dont know fishfinder i never tried with rods but the most exciting moment when trolling is the first strike when the fish is caught and i dont think that with the rod is the same thing

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it happens to get the strikes on the rod cause while you're retreaving the rod more keeps coming and as Spitec said with the help of the drag you will catch them easier even if you catch 3 nice ones. It happens also that when we catch on one rod we have to reduce speed and so I get the other rod and start retreaving slowly and since Lampuki will keep coming with the other fish cought on the other rod you will get a lot of stikes on the rod and beleive me they are much more fun on the rod than on the hand line. Still this is my opinion but even when you're trolling for hrs and you will get tired we often put it on the bungy cord but still when a fish strikes and you will not notice it often happens that you lose the fish. With the rod you will hear the drag and the fish will still keep swimming without losing her Denture

guys.. what do you think re having a rolling swivel connected to the  reel mainline and a short shockleader tied to it and a rolling snap on swivel so to change lures swiftly..? It should also help with the tangling..

i think it is useless.

maltempu if u want to change lures than a better set up to ur suggestion is: snap swivel to ur main line and have ur lures set up with a leader ending with a loop. so all u have to do is take off the lure and leader and change to a new one.

shanook, that is my current setup, but i saw it on a book, i tought i'd better ask, than try it out and have some hassles... thanks.. you too bigboy..

usually the main line gets entangled not the leader. or you step on it when you are retreiving the fish on the fish slips from your hand and finish on the line that is in the boat

That's why sometimes i prefare using rods.It's very easy to retreive and it's very difficult to get entangled.I am seing a lot of people today using rods instead of handline,even the older fishermen.

I like both the difference is that with a hand line i usually use from 4 to 6 lures for lampuki. with a rod max is 2 thats the difference i see, of course i am leaving out the part of a better chance od holding a large lampuka on a light line. As sometimes at this time we fish with small lures for a max of 700gr fish and u get hit by a 2kg lampuka which is hard to get on a hand held 20lb line

but leaders for lampuki should be at least 7 m long and with snap swivel youll end up 7m to retrive by hand. do u use shorter leader?

Quote from: shanook on September 02, 2008, 11:08:55 CET
I like both the difference is that with a hand line i usually use from 4 to 6 lures for lampuki. with a rod max is 2 thats the difference i see, of course i am leaving out the part of a better chance od holding a large lampuka on a light line. As sometimes at this time we fish with small lures for a max of 700gr fish and u get hit by a 2kg lampuka which is hard to get on a hand held 20lb line

4-6 lures? Maybe in August you use 4 lures but to get 6???!!!!

At this time of the year even 2 on each line its hard, but as usual we try to get our chance. In a month we eill be using only a single lure on each line