Trolling distance.

[Jimmyz123]

Originally Posted by Jim Day

For macks I like to troll with a 1 ounce egg Carolina rigged with a swivel and then three feet of line. As for distance back I drop it down to the bottom turn a crank or two then troll that distance back. The idea being if I come up on a mark, stop to drop iron on it the bait will slowly sink keeping the line tight until it's right off the bottom right on the mark. When I start back up it travels back up the water column until it's about ten feet under the surface if I'm paddling hard. This way you fish the whole range of depth with the bait and the line is never slack and the bait is never right on the bottom so you get less tangles or hang ups. If the fish are deep with nothing near the surface I'll troll the same thing with a four ounce egg, it will stay deeper and pull under you faster but it's the same deal where the line never goes slack.

Just may take... more then one way to skin that catfish.

Jim

Thanks for that tip, I may try that this weekend, it makes a lot of sense and like you said the bait is being fished in all levels of the water column. Thank you again.