Trolling Angles News and Articles
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Trolling Angles Version 3
The Trolling Angles App creates your own depth curve charts for any trolling rig. Trolling Angles v3 is now available with full features on both Android and Apple smartphones.
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Bottom Bouncers at 45 Degrees
Since one adjusts the depth of a bottom bouncer by adjusting the line length so that it makes occasional actual bottom contact, using a trolling depth curve is not necessary, but based on study of trolling angles there is a small nugget of information that we can impart. Advice found on the internet and fishing…
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Bogus Trolling Depth Information
Every fisherman who spends much time trolling wants to improve their understanding of trolling depth. However, if you try to learn more about trolling line curves and lure depth, you may run across a lot of confusing and incorrect information. This is not surprising, since very few people have observed an actual trolling line underwater…
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Troll at any Speed
While fishing by trolling, speed control is one of the most important issues. The Trolling Angles app cannot tell you at which speed you should troll your lure. That’s between you and the fish. But it can show the effect speed has on the depth curve. Diving lures with no added weight do not change…
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Trolling in Current
The Trolling Angles app allows you to measure and use the speed and direction of water currents, while trolling, using only your own fishing rig and your smartphone. Current is Critical Of all the different factors that determine the depth and performance of a trolled sinking fishing rig such as a lure with a sinker…
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The Unique Trolling Angles Method
The Trolling Angles app creates your own depth curve chart for any trolling rig. A depth curve shows the relationship of line length to lure depth. A trolled line is very complicated, with many different physical factors controlling its shape. Some of them are: Trolling Angles uses a unique patented method which ignores the values…
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Submerged Line, Unsubmerged Line, and Rod Tip Height
This explains the importance of the rod tip height value, and how it relates to the length of the submerged line and the unsubmerged line. There are two separate rod tip height fields, one for the Calibration, and another for the Trolling slider panel. In the Calibration Phase, the user measures a set of line…
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Saving a Trolling Depth Curve
The Trolling Angles app makes it easy to create a new depth curve chart configuration by measuring the line angles while deploying your trolling line, and to use the chart immediately. You do not need to enter any descriptive information such as lure type, speed, line size, or sinker weight. However, if you wish to…
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Snap Weights
A snap weight is a heavy sinker that is attached to the line with a pincher-like clip. It can be placed at any point of the line. A snap weight makes the line’s physics and forces and the resulting curve geometry much more complex, but because Trolling Angles measures the actual resulting line curve, it’s…
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Trolling Angles Patent Granted!
I am very pleased to announce that Patent 11473893 has been granted by the US Patent Office as of October 18, 2022. This patent covers the method and the means used by the Trolling Angles app, and is described on the web site trollingangles.com. This method is: Measuring line lengths and line angles at the…