You catch some nice fish and are one tough dude to be out in some of that weather in a Kayak. Keep up the good work. I enjoyed your video. Going to try that drop weight technique.
Hey Chuck, great video. I'm a newbie to this and will be taking my elderly dad walleye fishing for the first time in Northern Michigan. I've been looking at a lot of Minnow-Style Body Baits, like the Flicker Minnow. Some run shallow, medium and deep. Because it's the end of summer here in Michigan, the walleye are still deep in 20-30 f.o.w Is it easier running shallow-running baits with the heavier snap-weights or deeper running baits on lighter snap-weights? Thanks, Mark
Hi Mark, the snap weight process is the same with both shallow and deep diving cranks. Shallow divers have more of a subtle action which can be more productive below 50° water temps as well as on tough bite days 🎣
Matt Leben keeps telling me to calibrate my trolling combos line counters. I haven't yet. Is it absolutely necessary for kayak trolling?? I have 2 Ugly Stick 7.5' combos with R & L side planer boards. 2 lines out is good enough for me, I don't want to have too much going on at once.
Absolutely. The reason we use line counters is to be accurate at getting the presentation where you want it. If it's not calibrated you'll think you're at one number but you'll be off, sometimes by a lot and won't spend much time in the strike zone
Awesome video! How does this affect when you get a strike, or have to set the hook? Also, my understanding is that when you are reelint in and get to snap weight, you just quickly unclip it from the line and keep reeling? My thoughts are a 1oz- 1.5oz weight 25' up the line from the lure is going to really change how the fight is, and even potentially risk creating some slack in the line when the fish changes direction.
I honestly cant tell its there when fighting the fish unless its 4oz+ just be sure to give yourself enough line to quickly get the snap weight off without creating slack in the line.
Great video. Nice hacks. I use the precision app, but they list 10#mono for snap weights. Any idea how many feet you generally gain by switching to 10/4 braid? (such as 10# fireline)?
I generally use 10# mono for my snap weight setups and use braid for my trutrip diver setups. I’ve heard that the snap weights can slip on braid so I try to avoid it unless I’m loaning a set of trolling rods.
Sometimes the snap weights struggle to hold position on braid. You could wrap it one time around the clip but it would be tougher to get off. Personally I prefer Mono when running snap weights and braid when running TruTrips or dipseys
Hey Chuck question here, what kind of line/lb test do you run on your line counters for trolling? Nice video, very easy to understand method. So essentially you can eliminate the need to buy deep divers if you wanted too and just use weights!! no need to buy same colors in both shallow/deep diver
Thanks Mark! Shallow divers and deep divers produce a different action so I always carry and use both. But at times I'll use a snap weight to get my shallow baits deep as with my deep divers. My trolling rods are spooled up with 10lb xt mono
best explanation yet... thanks brother
Thank you!!
Thanks Chuck, I'll be trying the leader method soon
My pleasure!!
You catch some nice fish and are one tough dude to be out in some of that weather in a Kayak. Keep up the good work. I enjoyed your video. Going to try that drop weight technique.
Thank you Joe!!
Awesome Bro, I know nothing about that kind of fishing but you seem to have it down to a science! 👊💪
Thank you!!
great video! nice thrick you give to us thank you
Thank you!
I used to be so nervous on video 😝 Might be time to make an updated version of this one 🤔
Good job brother… answered some questions for me…
My pleasure!!
Awesome information, thanks
My pleasure!!
Great demo, thanks !!!
My pleasure!!
Nice job.
Appreciate your content. Thanks for the vid!
Thank you!
Hey Chuck, great video. I'm a newbie to this and will be taking my elderly dad walleye fishing for the first time in Northern Michigan. I've been looking at a lot of Minnow-Style Body Baits, like the Flicker Minnow. Some run shallow, medium and deep. Because it's the end of summer here in Michigan, the walleye are still deep in 20-30 f.o.w Is it easier running shallow-running baits with the heavier snap-weights or deeper running baits on lighter snap-weights? Thanks, Mark
Hi Mark, the snap weight process is the same with both shallow and deep diving cranks. Shallow divers have more of a subtle action which can be more productive below 50° water temps as well as on tough bite days 🎣
Matt Leben keeps telling me to calibrate my trolling combos line counters. I haven't yet. Is it absolutely necessary for kayak trolling?? I have 2 Ugly Stick 7.5' combos with R & L side planer boards. 2 lines out is good enough for me, I don't want to have too much going on at once.
Absolutely. The reason we use line counters is to be accurate at getting the presentation where you want it. If it's not calibrated you'll think you're at one number but you'll be off, sometimes by a lot and won't spend much time in the strike zone
Awesome video! How does this affect when you get a strike, or have to set the hook? Also, my understanding is that when you are reelint in and get to snap weight, you just quickly unclip it from the line and keep reeling? My thoughts are a 1oz- 1.5oz weight 25' up the line from the lure is going to really change how the fight is, and even potentially risk creating some slack in the line when the fish changes direction.
I honestly cant tell its there when fighting the fish unless its 4oz+ just be sure to give yourself enough line to quickly get the snap weight off without creating slack in the line.
Awesome video !
Thank you Mitch!!
My question is the shirt you are wearing in front of your kayak on your car?
It's a shirt I got a handful of years back from Bealls in Florida.
Great video. Nice hacks. I use the precision app, but they list 10#mono for snap weights. Any idea how many feet you generally gain by switching to 10/4 braid? (such as 10# fireline)?
I generally use 10# mono for my snap weight setups and use braid for my trutrip diver setups. I’ve heard that the snap weights can slip on braid so I try to avoid it unless I’m loaning a set of trolling rods.
does it matter if u use braid with the wights?
Sometimes the snap weights struggle to hold position on braid. You could wrap it one time around the clip but it would be tougher to get off. Personally I prefer Mono when running snap weights and braid when running TruTrips or dipseys
Thank you!
My pleasure!! 🎣🇺🇸
Hey Chuck question here, what kind of line/lb test do you run on your line counters for trolling? Nice video, very easy to understand method. So essentially you can eliminate the need to buy deep divers if you wanted too and just use weights!! no need to buy same colors in both shallow/deep diver
Thanks Mark! Shallow divers and deep divers produce a different action so I always carry and use both. But at times I'll use a snap weight to get my shallow baits deep as with my deep divers. My trolling rods are spooled up with 10lb xt mono
Learn new stuff daily. I thought same lure shallow/deep had same action but different depths
I’m one of those odd people that can watch underwater lure and underwater fish reaction videos for hours 😂 🎣🎣
😂😂
"When you catch 30 fish a day"
Ummm....yea, absolutely. All the time 😐
You must not fish Lake Erie 🤣