adding a 3rd rigger

[Buckster]

So I have an extra downrigger kicking around collecting dust and recently i thought about revising my current setup to accommodate it. I suspect running it off the stern would be the most logical place as i run my other two angled off the sides. Wondering if there is an ideal, rule of thumb so to speak, seperation distance between units to avoid you know what......Obviously things like ball weight, current etc...factor in. I'm in a 18 Lund Alaskan, run two scottys with 10lb sharks. Maybe it's better left at home but it would sure beat stacking lines.

 

[highhopes]

if you are running them off a bourd you should be ok straight out the back I have a 16 ft and I run 4 riggers two out the side and 2 straight back something like this

 

[Buckster]

That's kinda what I had envisioned. Thanks!

 

[Blastr]

It is not worth the extra tangles for Erie fishing. use your other poles off a planer board or with dipsies. just saying.

Blastr

 

[jakerboy]

On Erie for walleye i would stay with 2 riggers and a planner board mast with 2 leadcore or torpedo divers on each of them . If you don't have planner boards dipsy divers also work good .

 

[Buckster]

Can't see it really being applied on Erie. Lake O or Huron I could definitely see myself wanting to use it, that's where I was thinking of using the extra one. Think I'm gonna build a board and give it a whirl.