"Smart Troll"measures lure depth so you know how deep the lure or bait is trolled. It also measures the temperature at the depth of the lure.
"Smart Troll"is the answer to the question; "is there a way to tell how deepa lureruns?"
Smart Troll
Smart trollers Know Exactly How deep Their Lures Run
How deep are your lures
Knowing exactly how deep your lures or baits are when trolling has always been a challenge for both novice and experienced fishermen (and women). Different techniques have been used to try and determine how deep a lure will run under specific conditions. Fishermen have trolled on a sloping sandy bottom until their lure drags bottom to make a log of what depth that occurs for each lure in their box, others have tried to make calculations based on line angle, and some have even used divers to determine lure depth and made charts and published books with the charts for others to use. The problem isslight changes in conditions can affect a lures depth by several feet. Trolling slightly faster or slower, the wind pushing the boat sideways, waves rocking the boat (tugging back and forth on the lures), underwater currents, water temperature, line diameter, variations in the lures (even though they look identical) and other factors all combine in very complex ways to affect a lures trolling depth making it impossible to know just exactly how deep your lures areuntil now.
Technology has arrived that will give every fishing person, weather a novice week-end fisher or experienced charter captain, the ability to know exactly how deep their lure, live bait or cut bait runs. The new system is called the Smart Troll system and it works by attaching a small Smart Troll Sensor between your main line and your leader line. The Smart Troll Sensor is less than inch in diameter about three inches long and weighs less than 1 oz in the water. The sensor hangs from a short 175 lb test stainless steel leader with a loop for attaching it to the main line and a snap swivel for attaching it to the leader line. It is small and light enough so that it has little effect on lure action. It has no wires attached to it but its internal electronics are able to sense its depth and the temperature of the water at that depth. Every few seconds it sends a signal, through the water to a receiver on the boat. The signal is encoded with depth and temperature information and the display on the receiver shows the depth of the sensor and the temperature of the water at that depth. Your leader line can be as long or as short as you want it to bebut because the lure is just a few feet behind the sensor you know the exact depth that the lure is being trolled.
With Smart Troll when a change of conditions changes the lures depth you know within a few seconds because the Smart Troll receiver will tell you the depth of the Smart Troll Sensor with live readings. Imagine the possibilities
Scenario 1 (weeds)I am trolling through water that I know is rich with fish and I see on the depth finder that I am marking fish 20 feet deep. But I pick up a weed which both contaminates the lure and changes the lures depth. Without Smart Troll I am unaware of the weed so I troll on through and wonder why I did not get a bite. But with the Smart Troll, I set the lures depth to 20 feet (where the fish are) but without any change in conditions I look at the Smart Troll display and see the lure raised to 10 feet.a sure sign that I picked up a weed or something. I reel in remove the weed set the lure back to 20 feet and in a few minutes I am shouting Fish ON.
Scenario 2 (Thermocline)I know it is the time of year that the fish are hanging out near the thermocline I have heard that it is somewhere near 50 feet deep but exactly how do I find it. With Smart Troll all you have to do is let line out in 10 foot incrementswaiting a few seconds for the sensor to adjust to the surrounding temperature each time you stop. Once you see the temperature suddenly drop a few degreesyou know you crossed the thermocline.
Scenario 3 (Sudden Depth Changes)I fish in a lake where the bottom has sudden changes in depth. I know certain times of the year the big lunkers hang out right where the bottom slopes. But when I am trolling in 30 feet of water and my depth finder tells me that the water depth suddenly changed to 20 feet I have a dilemma because I am not sure just exactly how deep my lure is running. The question isdo I leave the lure where it is and risk getting hung on bottom or do I reel it in and end up way over the top of the fish hanging out on the slope? With Smart Troll there is no question. If I am trolling in 30 feet of water and I want to fish near the bottom I let my lure back until the Smart Troll Sensor tells me it is 25 to28 feet deep. If I look at my depth finder and see that the waters depth suddenly changes to 20 feet then I know without a doubt my lure is going to get caught on bottom once it catches up to where the boat was when the depth changed. So, I grab the reel and start reelingonce the Smart troll Sensor tells me the lure is 15 to 18 feet I know to stop reeling so I can just barely skim over the slopeso close to the big lunkers that they cannot help but strike because of instinct.
The Smart Troll System will definitely change the way you fish with a whole new tackle box full of techniques becauseSmart Trollers Know Exactly how Deep Their Lures Run.
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How it works:
"Smart Troll"tells you exactly how deep you are trolling a lure, cut bait or live bait. The"Smart Troll"system includes a Hand-Held Receiver, a Hydrophone and one or two Sensors. Ithas the ability to monitor one lure or two lures (at the same time) and is very easy to use.
- Simply attach the small Acoustic Sensor between your leader and main line (with the lure or bait of your choice attached to the other end of the leader).
- The leader can be any length that you choose. The sensor is so small (0.5 inch diameter) and light (about 1 ounce in air and virtually weightless in water) that it hardly affects the action or "feel" of the lure and is not noticeable at all when fighting a fish.
- The"Smart Troll"Sensor incorporates tiny electronic circuits that monitor the lure's depth and temperature and transmits a signal through the water to the boat. Every 10 to 15 seconds the sensor sends an encoded acoustic signal through the water to the Hydrophone. The Hydrophone converts it to an electrical signal and the Receiver "reads" the electrical signal and displays the lure's depth and the water temperature at that depth. It works GREAT at Depthsover 200 feet and speeds of up to 4.5 MPH and with over 100 yards of line out.