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Test number 4 a few days ago. A few benefits: Your watching the data on the tablet and if you get a knock off the depth displays the diver now up near the surface or if you have a small hitch hiker the depth curve moves up where it was running 15 feet from the drag. Both cases something changed enough in the data in real time you just turn around and check the diver rod in question! Nice to have your back covered! It could even be a weed ball at the end of the diver! We have all been there when one diver rod is firing and the other is dead! We try to put the same amount of line out and match lures. Still no bites. Now you can see where the bites are coming specifically on the hot diver side and adjust the other rod to match the depth the active diver is catching fish. Turning the boat you can see sometimes a loss of 20 ft on one side of the boat due to currents! Or you could be running a dodger fly or in Ontario a meat rig or Flasher Fly. You can now see where it's running compared to a spoon on another diver. You don't turn your sonar off and fish blind? The same analogy is running our divers blind. Now you can see where they are running with the Smart Troll probes.

On water test #3 with Don and Chris yesterday on the boat for 7 hours. It's been simply amazing each time I get these probes wet in the water. We have seen some significant current again at times when the boat is running certain directions which change the dive curve significantly! We see a difference of 20 feet at times between the two diver rods in terms of wire out on the counter. Boggles the mind! But checking with my X4-D and my TD at times the last 3 trips we verify the depth and temp. of these probes in question! You almost have to forget and process how much wire is out but just look at the temp. and depth of the probes and just keep them where you would like them. It's very cool knowing where they are running! It's really neat comparing the depths of the X4-D Fishhawk on the rigger and the two divers in the water! And using my X4-D as a baseline and running divers above or below it to trigger bites at 64F / 57F our target temps. We will run one diver high at times 10-15 ft above temp. for Steelhead in the warmer water! I am a self described data person from my background. These kinds of tools help put the puzzle together to get bites.

My second time fishing with the Smart Troll system yesterday. With the high water still and the lake at 98 ft there is some significant currents yesterday and directions trolled with the North wind we saw some significant changes in our two light bites dive curves throughout the morning. It was similar to Ontario yesterday. Again,.. very amazed at how things change watching data! Temp break was 70-75 feet on the main lake on the riggers but due to blowback of 5-8 feet it they were running where you see the temps on my divers. Great to see the divers close or on the break! And adjust them to keep running there after changes in boat course direction with waves and strong currents! Changes I have made to my traditional running of my lite bites: Mag rings / 2 setting / 200-250 wire out to achieve the depth curve needed to fish this deep thermocline parking baits at 62-64F.