Help with a drogue

[mayflyjunky]

Hi Guys

I am having alot of problems with my drogue opening to the extent I was half thinking of putting a bit of weight to the bottom strings.
I don't really want the drogue to end up sinking as I am drifting over water 6-10 ft but I haven't heard of any other anglers having to do this so it must be something I am doing.
Also is there an optimum length to have it in the water out of the back of the boat to maximise the slowing down rate. Currently I have it about a length and a half of the oar.

Any ideas what I could be doing wrong??

S*it posted in the wrong section, sorry.

[steveparton]

In the past I've made drogues for folks fishing over mainly shallow water with floats along the top and weights along the bottom . Sadly they never fed back !

All you need is the least amount of rope out to set the thing - more does slightly slow down the yaw tendency but not a lot .

If you need more slowing capability the only answer is a bigger drogue - me I tend to use two square ones as opposed to one big rectangular ( paradrogue style ) one . But they are twice as much work at the start and end of a drift .

One thing you must not do is to use a drogue with a hole in the middle - no point at all in letting the water out when you've been to all that trouble to catch it !

And whereas two great big square drogues are way over the top for IR Matchmen in terms of rule compliance ( the nitwits ) - they work lovely for relatively close contact buzzering and genuine shortline loch-styling in a hatful of wind !

The other common delusion folks have is that drogues spin in the water - to explain away that nasty phenomenon of guide cords getting braided together over time - this is in actual fact caused by the non aware pulling drogues through themselves ( as it were ) when collapsing and getting them out of the water the 'easy' way !

Best wishes

Steve Parton

[mayflyjunky]

Thanks for the info Steve

Cheers