Several downrigger styles are available. Electric downriggers are standard on most charter boats. An electric 'rigger deploys and reels in the downrigger weight, which may weigh 10 or 12 pounds or ...

A Lake Superior troller, John Ehlers grew tired of losing fish. He knew it happened when his line was momentarily slack after it released from a downrigger cable or a planer board. So Ehlers started ...

It had been a fun, if not especially memorable, day of fishing, with barracudas and bonitos biting baits intended for dolphin, sailfish, kingfish and tuna. Now Capt. Sam Heaton was making one last ...