As promised, Improved DIY Downrigger

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To add to the previous post the weight on the downrigger is just to send your lure/attractor down to the depth that you are marking fish on your fish finder. You can let out as much line as you want and let it trail behind the boat before you attach it to the clip attached to the weight. When a fish hits the lure it pulls the line out of the clip and you are now free to fight the fish without lugging around a heavy weight or reeling in a planing board, dipsy diver,... etc. Usually the rule of 100 works for me at Porcupine. If I am 20 feet down I let out 80 feet of line before attaching it to the clip. If I'm 60 feet down (which I am not that deep at the Pig anyway) then I let out 40 feet of line. Hope that helps some.
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