Thread: Roadrunner Trolling

Depends on time of year. 3 oz with 1/4 oz road runners is what I call power trolling. Let's you get more speed while lines are still pretty much straight down. I make my own wire form for it.


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I put the lead on the bottom, Kentucky rig. When I run qtr oz I put it on below a 1/8 or 1/16 runner, no reason, just preference.

The flash from the roadrunners in the fall is deadly! I typically have my deeper outside rods set up this way, but not with the big weights.

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Originally Posted by bwillig

I have heard that a lot of you are spider rigging with 1/4 oz roadrunners and 3oz weights. Do you just put a 3oz egg sinker 12" above the roadrunner and have at it? Do you put two roadrunners on one line? Pix or any help so I can try it next time I come down. I think I was going too slow with my double minnow rigs with 1/2 oz weights.

Your talking about Power Trolling......some use one road runner....some use two. I think BRM uses 5 or 6 oz. of weight...its high speed pushing.

You can tie them in many different ways. Here's a few ways that I use.

Put the first one on a long loop knot then the sinker below that about 12" then the second one 12" below the sinker.

You can tie 2 roadrunners above the sinker in loop knots about 18" apart.

Tie a 3 way below the sinker and on one leg of the 3 way run 3' leader with a roadrunner. Off the other leg tie an 12" leader with the second one.




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I put my weight in the middle like a C&C rig.


BRM

I got into power trolling this spring and it was very successful. I try to use as little weight as possible and usually get by with 1.5-2 oz. granted, my trolling motor will only run sustained around .8-1.0 mph before it's starts cutting off for some reason.

I had more success on roadrunner style jigs most days but sometimes a plain jighead outperformed.

I also tie mine C&C style.


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MidMsAngler, you may be throwing a breaker. I had same problem. Had to go to a 50amp breaker from a 40.