Distance off the downrigger ball

[eviltroll]

I have read many things about how far I should be setting what I'm running off my ball. I currently have two 12 pound torpedo shaped weights and been running them 15' off the ball with a flasher and fly or cut bait rig. I have a few dodgers but haven't used them much, been sticking to the flashers more. We headed out of Wilson and olcott the past two weekends. We been staying in the 80-120fow and save everywhere we mark fish but have been unsuccessful in hooking up. I had a hook up for sure but I made my own cut bait rig and tightened the sleeves to hold the glow baits and must have damaged the line because it snapped off in about two minutes. But any helpful tips for distance between the flasher and ball or what I could be doing wrong. Also we don't have a kicker only an electric trolling bow motor 55 thrust or run our motor idle between 2.4-3mph and troll with the waves

[Chas0218]

I had a hook up for sure but I made my own cut bait rig and tightened the sleeves to hold the glow baits and must have damaged the line because it snapped off in about two minutes. 

Did it feel like a large fish?  My experience is that when I have a kink in a line or bad knot the fish breaks off almost instantly.  Did you have your drag adjusted properly?

[eviltroll]

That's another thing I have been adjusting I have the drag set tight to where I have to give it a good tug to pull line out. I have a lund 16 ft not really the ideal Lake Ontario boat but we have two penn fathom master riggers off the sides. I felt the tug and fought it for about a minute and it came up without my bait head broke right under where I pinched my last sleeve on my cut bait rig also when I made this one I added a bead with a glow blade in the front. This was the only one I had action on also have the lowarance elite 5 dsi and it was marking well this happened.