searunner

I was in Mexico Bay a week ago and I was targeting browns. 52 degrees was down about 90 feet. I only had one release and I was able to get the huge brown to the back of the boat. As I went to net it, it just drifted away. I never noticed how it was hooked, but it must have been hanging by a tread. It had to be in the 19 pound range. Because of a recent thread on this forum, I just checked my downrigger cable counters. Two of them were in sync at 104 feet, one was 93 feet, and the forth was 112 feet. So when I hooked that brown, I thought that I had all (3) downriggers at about 90 feet, because the thermocline was very specific. Another 3 feet down and I was at 47 degrees. Come to find out, the big brown hit on the rigger that was probably down around 100 feet, well below where I would have thought, but very close to the bottom. So check your downrigger cable counters. The other thing that I recently saw on this forum was a comment from a charter captain, it might have been captain Rich. I think he was saying, shut off your temperature probe..........spread out your lures beyond the thermocline where you think you should be targeting. Food for thought.