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fishon2407
My brother has this idea in his head about putting a downrigger out while drifting for shark.Idea being that when the downrigger is set down about 75-100 feet you can set the bait back 100 feet and the current will keep it back behind the boat.I don't think this will work at all.Any of you tried this.
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MakoMike
fishon2407 wrote:
My brother has this idea in his head about putting a downrigger out while drifting for shark.Idea being that when the downrigger is set down about 75-100 feet you can set the bait back 100 feet and the current will keep it back behind the boat.I don't think this will work at all.Any of you tried this.

We've done it with an extra chum bag on the downrigger. But the bait won't be behind the boat, basically it will still be in the slick, unless you have some weird current situtaion where the current 75-100 feet down is different than it is at the surface. If its the same the bait will be out in the slick s the boat drifts.
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MakoMatt wrote:
fishon, you can usually get the bait down to the depth you want just using a weight. I don't think you want all that downrigger crap in the water.

MakoMike wrote:
We've done it with an extra chum bag on the downrigger.
I ASS-ume you mean a chum pot, not a bag, the sharks would rip that to shreds, but that aside, why did you put whatever you used on a downrigger while drifting??

from another thread MakoMike wrote:
We usually catch one or two big blues a year and many more whites.
Is this the technique you use to catch the 1 or 2 big Blue Marlin and many more White Marlin every year, drifting with a downrigger??

MakoMatt


Matt, yes I did mean a chum pot. I have a big wire one that can hold a whole can of shark chum. It was an experiement and we only did it twice. It didn't seem to improve the sharking so we stopped doing it.

I think we have only caught one white marlin while drifting and chumming over all the years. Almost all of our marlins came on the troll, either on natural or plastic baits.
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