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a fishing line used in trolling that is attached to a weighted cable in order to put lures or bait at a specific depth under a boat, usually near the floor.
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The facility also has a battery-powered downrigger reel.
Fishing downrigger is a device used for submerging and lowering a fishing line and bait down and away from a boat while trolling.
If you're not catching fish vary the boat speed and vary the distance back from the downrigger release.
Calibration experiments were conducted using a new motorized, remote-control downrigger system that performed well.
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