Colored Downrigger weights

[twisted lines]

Did anyone do more research on this topic this last season? I just bought some orange pancakes from Cabelas. Silver tape on the fins?

I did put one of my pancake fish in the water the first trip out for a few minutes and found it had a little more action then I wanted at the upper speed for Kokanee, it would make a full large circle tooexcited after trying to detune it twice in the boat while fishing put further testing off.

Are your new weights listed at 10s but weight closer to 9 ? I think you will like them.

 

[SilverBullets]

Nice weights Dave!thumbsup Since the UV dodgers have been working out so well the last couple years have you concidered useing UV tape on the fin? Delta Tackle has it...item #08440.

 

[SuperD]

I couldn't find anything to look at on their website. You got any to show a picture of it?

 

[SilverBullets]

I couldn't find anything to look at on their website. You got any to show a picture of it?

Yep...it's not on their web site. I special order it through Wholesale Sports (fomally Sportman's Warehouse.) They don't carry Delta products but since Delta and Gibbs merged awhile back I had them put it on their next Gibbs Order. The tape looks to be an exact match to the tape Shasta Tackle uses on their dodgers that they advertise to be UV. I talked to Gary Miralles about it once...he said the tape isn't uv but the coating is. All I know is it seems to work. The last picture of dodgers in my album show a couple that I added the tape to. I like to add it to the back of alot dodgers (especially the shasta uv dodgers) for twice the effect.

 

[Full_Monte]

I think painting down-rigger weights various colors catches more fish just like buying colored condoms gets you more women...

 

[Kokonuts]

laugh hyst....Monte cant you keep a SECRET? .....laugh hyst

 

[SuperD]

Can I use the same analogy for glow in the dark condoms and glow in the dark fishing lures?

 

[Full_Monte]

You can use the analogy if you like, but you would have to test it out. I think you would get some funny looks from your fishing buddies wearing a glow-in-the-dark condom on a pre-dawn fishing trip. The proof would be if you come back to the dock with more women than fish...tooexcited.

 

[SuperD]

Looking for a vote. Which tape would you pick, option 1 or option 2?

 

[trollmonkey]

I like option one.I'm just wondering if those glow in the dark thingys would fit on a pancake wt.101shock1101

 

[SilverBullets]

I think they both look good. The silver tape should produce a good contrast between the shade of grey the red/orange turns as it goes down the water colume.

 

[SuperD]

I think they both look good. The silver tape should produce a good contrast between the shade of grey the red/orange turns as it goes down the water colume.

Me too but at this point the red is just laying on top waiting for you guys to convince me one way or the other so I can complete the back sides of the fins.

 

[Bluknight]

I vote for option #2 with the red stripe. I always figure if the scent of blood gets the sharks into a frenzy then a flash a red in the water would trigger any fish to attack. Kokes can be violent little suckers!

 

[Full_Monte]

Option 1. Red disappears into grey/black in the first few feet of water depth.