Northwest Fishing Reports

What size downrigger ball/weight do you guys use in the Puget Sound? I current have some 7 1/2 weights but they seem to be pretty light for the sound. I have a pair of scotty's manual downriggers with 24" boom that I'm using.

Thanks for the info.

Min. 10lb to 15lb

12 lb.

12lbs

Prob 12. I'm still using 10's left over from the days before I bought electric DRs. Mostly, because I'm too cheap to buy new 12's. How much do new 12's cost anyway?

12 lb'ers from $20 - $25 on craigslist.
https://seattle.craigslist.org/sno/spo/ ... 78588.html

https://skagit.craigslist.org/spo/d/fis ... 67906.html

Certainly 12 lb.ers are better than you 7-8 lb ball, but I wouldn’t cancel fishing just because of the ball weight.
Depending on how your sonar is set up, at least with mine, I can see the ball, and regardless of how much blow back I have, I can still know where the ball is located.
But I wouldnt fish like that every time.

The Quadfather wrote:Certainly 12 lb.ers are better than you 7-8 lb ball, but I wouldn’t cancel fishing just because of the ball weight.
Depending on how your sonar is set up, at least with mine, I can see the ball, and regardless of how much blow back I have, I can still know where the ball is located.
But I wouldnt fish like that every time.

What he said.

The day will go on if you loose your 12 pound weights, you'll still have your 7.5's, which will work fair.