There are many times when fish are holding at a certain depth in the water column and it’s nowhere close to the bottom or the top. Trying to find them can become a guessing game, even if you can see them hovering at mid-depths on your boat’s echo sounder. When one of your crew mates shouts, “Tuna at 95 feet,” how many pulls off your reel will it be to get you into the feeding zone before they move off? Same goes when you are chunking tuna, blues, or whatever in your slick. When one angler finally reaches the feeding zone and shouts out how far back he was when his bait got slammed, does he really know that distance with any degree of certainty? You see where I’m going with this, it’s all a matter of educated guesswork. But guesswork is now a thing of the past.
With its recent introduction of Depth-Hunter braid, PowerPro has taken a big step up the evolutionary ladder of superlines and they are going to drag a bunch of us along for the ride. What’s the secret of knowing where your bait is relative to the surface or bottom? It’s all in the colors. Providing anglers with the advantage of quickly and consistently dropping their lures and baits back into the strike zone, PowerPro’s new Depth-Hunter metered braided fishing line is good to go for use in both fresh and saltwater and provides precise lure depth control for vertical jigging and precision trolling. This new line is offered in a variety of popular weight classes (10, 15, 20, 30, 40, 50, 65, 80, 100 and 150-pound test) and sold in 500-foot; 1,000; 1,500; 4,500 and 9,000-foot spools, so there’s a line class and spool size that should meet your needs. PowerPro Depth-Hunter braid features four basic hues (blue/yellow/green/orange) that changes color every 25 feet, with the process repeating every 100 feet. To fine-tune your jigging or trolling applications, Depth-Hunter provides a two-centimeter (about 3/4 of an inch) black hash mark at every five-foot increment.
%pullstart%PowerPro’s new Depth-Hunter metered braided fishing line is good to go for use in both fresh and saltwater and provides precise lure depth control for vertical jigging and precision trolling.%pullend%When you are vertical jigging with Depth-Hunter, if you mark fish 25 feet off the bottom, you can quickly drop your jig to the bottom, and then easily wind it up one color to be right in the middle of a feeding frenzy. Plus you can easily use the same technique for dropping a jig past suspended fish into deeper water, then start jigging up the water column to be in the strike zone. For trolling, the color change feature of Depth-Hunter braid makes it easy for anglers to put lures at various controlled distances behind the boat. Fishermen can dial in their trolling pattern like never before, and Depth-Hunter provides the ability to keep lures at the precise distance behind the boat to troll at the most productive spots in the wake.
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As with regular PowerPro braided fishing line, Depth-Hunter features Enhanced Body Technology (EBT) to create a rounder, smoother and more sensitive line. PowerPro is manufactured with ultra-strong braided Spectra fiber by Innovative Textiles, Inc (A Shimano Company) and is designed so that it won’t bury in the spool, picks up less water and packs tightly onto your reel when putting it on for the first time or when retrieving it back after each cast. The strength-to-diameter ratio of this super line is fantastic when compared to mono (the 50-pound PowerPro braid on my deep drop tile fishing reels is equivalent in diameter to 12-pound mono) and the sensitivity and sure hooksets at depths of 500 feet and more have to be felt to be believed. When wreck fishing or sinker bouncing, thinner braid requires less weight to hold bottom and lets you fish in a more vertical format for a better feel. It is the absolute right tool for this job and many others. I have also packed PowerPro onto my tuna jigging reels and Penn 16 VSXs (they hold almost 500 yards of 80-pound PowerPro). I will definitely try out the new Depth-Hunter line on my favorite tuna jigging reel (a Shimano Talica 16-II) later this season and respectfully suggest that you do the same if precision depth metering is important to your style of sport fishing. The MSRP of a 500-foot spool (167 yards) of 10/15/20/30/40/50 pound test is $24.99; 65-pound is $26.99; 80-pound is $28.99; and 100-pound is $32.99. For 1,000-foot spools (333 yards), the MSRP of 10/15/20/30/40/50 pound test is $42.99; 65-pound is $46.99; 80-pound is $49.99; and 100-pound is $56.99.
