Thoughts on attractor fly setbacks

[capt ace]

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ace-Charters/134117926659711  Here is an article about how attractor flies behave with different setbacks. you may be surprised.  My webmaster has taken I'll with be down for some time so i am not able to get my articles uploaded to my website.

[shadster]

Very good read, Captain Ace. Makes perfect sense.

 

I also checked out your website. Looking very good. I wish your webmaster well.

[capt ace]

Thanks for the compliment Shadster. A friend of mine made a great analogy. He said it's just like flying a kite. They can be pretty erratic until a lot of line is let out.

[momay4000]

This was a good read - and you said it best in your article that the reason the flasher rotates in a tighter circle when it's farther from the boat is because it can't rotate in its maximum "arc" because it simply doesn't have enough energy to rotate all the extra line through the water because of resistance. 

 

The same analogy would hold true by trying to do a J-stroke with a canoe paddle submerged two feet in the water, versus doing the same stroke with an oar which is submerged 6 feet down. It's much harder to move the oar in a circle in the water b/c of the extra resistance.

 

Good luck and thanks for the good read,

 

- Chris

[Gill-T]

I would add the Downrigger weight is acting like a "fullback" and reducing the drag in it's wake allowing for the flasher to do it's thing less inhibited.