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    Fairhaven

    in New York Fishing Reports - Lake Ontario (South Shore)

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    So basically what you’re saying is if my riggers are 80-100 down, my 10# fishweights should not be blowing back at a 45degree angle but more perpendicular?  The angle of the cables then should give me a better idea of my down speed then.  Correct? 
    To make it simple, the current is going in different directions depending where you are. There's no safe way to tell you're down speed without a probe. Going one way you might not be able to go fast enough but the other way you might no be able to go slow enough. You can read the cables if you're seasoned to that like I grew up doing but the currents are bad and going all different directions. Hard to keep up with it.

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    Fairhaven

    in New York Fishing Reports - Lake Ontario (South Shore)

    Posted

    So basically what you’re saying is if my riggers are 80-100 down, my 10# fishweights should not be blowing back at a 45degree angle but more perpendicular?  The angle of the cables then should give me a better idea of my down speed then.  Correct? 
    To make it simple, the current is going in different directions depending where you are. There's no safe way to tell you're down speed without a probe. Going one way you might not be able to go fast enough but the other way you might no be able to go slow enough. You can read the cables if you're seasoned to that like I grew up doing but the currents are bad and going all different directions. Hard to keep up with it.

    Sent from my Pixel 3 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

    Fairhaven

    in New York Fishing Reports - Lake Ontario (South Shore)

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    No my weights were not registering on the finder even when I am down to 2.4.  I was feeling like we were always going faster than the gps speed on the screen.  I think I will bump up the sensitivity on the finder and like you said, run a spoon boatside to see how it’s running.  I have buckets on board I use for walleye trolling and maybe should be using them all the time.
    You can check the surface speed all you want with a spoon but 100 feet down, you could be doing 1.5 difference compared to the top with all the current going on. Temp hasn't mattered for me much but speed changes every direction.

    Sent from my Pixel 3 using Lake Ontario United mobile app

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