Thread: Where do you measure line from ?

From where it enters the water. I have seen folks around here with their rod tips 10 feet out of the water. No way any depth chart would do them any good fishing like that counting from the rod tip. Lol

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Originally Posted by LowePro

Hahahaha believe it or not....in the 10th grade my geometry had so much trouble with me because I told her geometry was ridiculous and I would never use it in my life! Good thing that butt whooping from mom straightened me out, cuz i use geometry ALL the time! And especially when cranking! Which I could not live my life without! Hahaha

I hear ya! I wish that I was as smart now as I thought I was then😉

Originally Posted by yikess

From where it enters the water. I have seen folks around here with their rodips 10 feet out of the water. No way any depth chart would do them any good fishing like that counting from the rod tip. Lol

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That was kinda what I was doing. I wasn't getting hung up near enough for where I was fishing. Lol

It doesn't really matter too much. The difference say for a Bandit 300 that runs between 16 and 17 ft is 30 ft of line. I find more variance between individual plugs than worrying about a few feet of height of the rod tip.

To be the most accurate, it's where the line meets the water. A big advantage of using planer boards is that its easier to get an accurate depth since the line is always at the water at the same place. Line out starts where you clip the back release on the line. The distance from the rod to the planer board has no bearing on depth.

True story about the planet boards. I will do a drawing of a pic after I get done clearing these food plots describing the geometry of it.