Metal dodger under water

[bandrus1]

Anybody have a link to a dodger being trolled

[LakerTaker]

 

A video I found on you tube. This looks like a plastic dodger but standard dodgers are similar with somewhat of a roll action as well.

 

[Sk8man]

One of the things worth noting is how much difficulty the fish has actually catching up with the bait. Note the motion (action) of the dodger....it is being trolled too fast. The dodger  should be swaying more side to side and more slowly so that the bait isn't jerked so much away from the fish. One of the things that becomes apparent in most of these videos is the difficulty many fish have nailing a target sideways and they try to come straight from the back. Either the lure has to be weighted more to slow it (and not necessarily the attractor). the leader from attractor to lure needs to be lenghtened, or the speed needs to be reduced over-all to allow them to actually grab it. Dodger operate differently in the water than flashers where speed isn't as critical.

Edited July 22, 2018 by Sk8man

[Netbender]

+1 I agree withSK8-same thing I notice was the misses


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[bandrus1]

you watch any downrigger vid there are always a ton of misses.....

[Sk8man]

Part of the problem in any of these situations is that fish vision is different than ours in that their eyes are placed differently on their head (sides) such that they don't have the same ability we do for binocular vision which is required for true depth perception.

[ifishy]

I think for videos you often have a very short lead that changes the action and can make it a much faster swing and roll so harder to hit back it up a little and it's more manageable but less erratic which is not always good

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