Downrigger alternative for kayak

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Re: Downrigger alternative for kayak

Post by purple5ive » Sun Jan 27, 2019 2:00 pm

use a Ezyrig with a heavy enough sinker on it.
so basically like your second picture but you can change weights to suit depth

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Re: Downrigger alternative for kayak

Post by mazman » Mon Jan 28, 2019 7:51 am

A few of the kayak guys have made up downriggers from cut down boat rods and large overheads for trolling on the lakes and a few other places. From memory it worked well and allowed them to pick their depth rather than guessing with sinkers etc.
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Re: Downrigger alternative for kayak

Post by Sebb » Mon Jan 28, 2019 8:14 am

ben475 wrote:maybe try a lure like a deep diving 50mm or is it 60mm ac slim invader, sposed to dive to 10m.
It looks like a murray cod / yellowbelly lure, might try it.
Similar to RMG Halco poltergeist.

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Re: Downrigger alternative for kayak

Post by ben475 » Mon Jan 28, 2019 7:01 pm

Seb85 wrote:
ben475 wrote:maybe try a lure like a deep diving 50mm or is it 60mm ac slim invader, sposed to dive to 10m.
It looks like a murray cod / yellowbelly lure, might try it.
Similar to RMG Halco poltergeist.

ive heard they catch trout too.
i was going to give em a try oneday, along with the rmg poltergeist i think they dive to around 8.6m or similar.

i was trolling tassies and hard bodies back in spring time, only caught them early morn but the sounder seemed to be showing quite a few fish around the 12-15m depth, hard to know what they were but i thought next time it might be worth a try jigging with soft plastics or other jigs, i dont know about over here but in the u.s. they do quite a bit of deep water jigging for big lake trout.

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Re: Downrigger alternative for kayak

Post by cheaterparts » Mon Jan 28, 2019 7:08 pm

mazman wrote:A few of the kayak guys have made up downriggers from cut down boat rods and large overheads for trolling on the lakes and a few other places. From memory it worked well and allowed them to pick their depth rather than guessing with sinkers etc.

I made and used a downrigger to fish up north offshore and it worked well - how ever the problem I had was getting out of the way of the fish fast enough
for trout in deep lakes it may be fine - I hooked ether a Spanish Mack or maybe a Wahoo and the speed it went around the down rigger cord I had no hope and the line was cut off - not the downrigger cord

some guys use an old Alvey reel with a star drag and lower by backing off the drag enough to control the down rigger weight dropping - and tighten the drag to hold the position ( depth ) some use multi coloured braid to guess the depth
I used a cheap Ebay lever drag reel using the drag again to lower the weight but the weight would drop in the sounder beam so I could set the depth watching the mark on the sounder - strangely the weight would move back out of the sounder beam once paddling clearing up the screen

last year I just used a sinker fixed to the line with a rubber band for the line I wonted to troll deeper all though I have toyed with giving a downrigger another try - it does work but is a bit more to manage when a fish is on --- hope that is some help

I may have some pics of my old set up but will have to look for them
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Re: Downrigger alternative for kayak

Post by Sebb » Mon Jan 28, 2019 9:56 pm

Wow, few ideas there.
Thank you all, i might play around and try a few, see which one works.
Might wait for autumn though, a little too hot to troll for trout atm? Or worth trying?

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Re: Downrigger alternative for kayak

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Re: Downrigger alternative for kayak

Post by Lightningx » Wed Jan 30, 2019 8:44 pm

smile0784 wrote:How about a mini down rigger
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre ... 3502109059
Looks like a beauty.

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Re: Downrigger alternative for kayak

Post by Sebb » Thu Jan 31, 2019 5:51 am

smile0784 wrote:How about a mini down rigger
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre ... 3502109059
Ooow nice. I wonder how small. I might send a message to the seller.
Thanks!

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Re: Downrigger alternative for kayak

Post by smile0784 » Thu Jan 31, 2019 12:04 pm

Will book being 30cm doesn't look that big

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