Miss Mattie
Active member
I have a Canon UniTroll 10HS manual downrigger which I use occasionally for spanish mackeral in the summer and for rockfish in the fall (stripers in Chesapeake Bay lingo). When in use at about 20-30 feeet there is a persistant humming vibration. Not loud but annoying. Is this normal?
I was out this weekend testing and used 3 different weights and different release clips without any percieved difference. Depth of the weight does not seem to have any effect nor does varying the length of the arm. I propose to try a smaller swage of the downrigger cable but otherwise I am stumpped.
Does anone have any experience with this problem and how to correct it? Does the hum affect the fishing? To my surprise I did catch a 18" spanish mackeral on the line attached to the downrigger while it was at full vibration/hum, but I expect this may have been unusual.
I was out this weekend testing and used 3 different weights and different release clips without any percieved difference. Depth of the weight does not seem to have any effect nor does varying the length of the arm. I propose to try a smaller swage of the downrigger cable but otherwise I am stumpped.
Does anone have any experience with this problem and how to correct it? Does the hum affect the fishing? To my surprise I did catch a 18" spanish mackeral on the line attached to the downrigger while it was at full vibration/hum, but I expect this may have been unusual.
