Precision Trolling

I have been using it for two seasons with excellent results. I can confidently send any bait on my boat to any depth I desire. I use it every day on I’m on the water and I consider it an essential fishing tool. It’s easy. All you have to do is find fish and schools of bait on your electronics. Determine their depth. Then use the app to select a lure that can target that depth. I also use it to assess crank baits and delivery systems helping me make informed tackle buying decisions. As Mark Romanack (one of the owners of Precision Trolling Data) says, “It’s like adding gun sights to your bait.” I am not giving it 5 stars because I would like to see some user features added to the app. They just added an update that allows you to build a favorites list that makes it so you can add the baits you own and not have to sort through the entire library every time you want to look up a bait. Which is a huge step in the right direction. I would like to see it taken a little further where I could add baits into spread sheet format and assign them a rod number and have the lead length, depth, speed, and line type listed along side the baits. I at times I fish up to 8 lines at once and it gets hard to keep track of all the lead lengths. I have my rods marked and numbered 1-8. I find myself constantly referencing lead lengths when setting and resetting lines or asking the people I’m fishing with if they remember the lead length. Having all my trolling spread information consolidated into one easy to reference screen would put this app over the top into the 5 star category for me. As it would make me much quicker and more efficient on the water.

Honestly I’ve been only using for a full year now. It’s obvious you guys are actual fisherman and the app is very easy to use and follow. Not sure if it’s possible but like most fisherman we aren’t sponsored by tackle companies and just don’t have the time to read up on all the new crankbaits lures that seem to be flooding the tackle stores as of late. I’m wondering if there is a way to sort lures by depth first so any angler can then just sort through those lures and go from there. For example if u are going to LOW in august and want to fish the basin an are looking for all lures that will troll say between 25 - 30 ft on planer boards is that possible? Maybe it would be just too complicated because of all the techniques that are available to get even shallow baits down that deep say using a downrigger. When salmo came out with the deep diving free divers I didn’t even know they existed until someone told me about them. Anyways great info and very easy to use once u get it figured out. Gary

By all accounts from people that use the app with recommended Berkley 10# XT and the lures that have been documented nothing gets better for accurate trolling depth control (or other tested combination). That being said there are limitations. If your lure has not been tested some other method will be required. But all is not lost if you compare it to a similar lure that is documented/tested. Finding a tested lure that matches your untested lure by the overall length, body size & shape, lip size, lip shape and lip angle and buoyancy should get very close. The other thought I have is it would be close to impossible to test all lures with the number that come out each year and already exist. I would not want to be without it for trolling fish that are suspended or on the bottom (all off them).