Some firsts at Strawberry today

[Kent]

CLARIFICATION - I did not have a second line on my downrigger (that would have been illegal, because my cousin was already fishing with leaded line, and we would have had three rods in the water). I had a second line off of my fishing line that was already attached to the downrigger. I learned about it by watching Doug Miller the other evening, and he had a guy on there fishing for kokanee at The Gorge. I just used a snap, attached to a swivel, and attached to the swivel was about 15 to 20 inches of leader which was attached to a lure or a minnow. I attached my rod to the downrigger and sent it to the bottom, then I tightened the line a little and pulled my rod close enough to the boat that I could lean out and reach the fishing line. I then connected the snap to the fishing line and released the lure/minnow behind the fishing line, and it would go down to the depth where the line is bowed the most, which will be 1/2 way down to where your line is attached to the downrigger. So with the downrigger set at 40 feet the line clipped to my fishing line would be at 20'. Realize that this second line will be running only a couple feet (or in my case, with the downrigger attached about four feet from the stearn of the boat, probably about even with the stearn) behind the boat at best. Interestingly, I caught about 50% of my fish on the second line.
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