Trout Magnet rate of Fall - 1/64th?

[mfbab]

Does anyone know the fall rate for the 1/64th Trout Magnet, with and/or without a split shot?
Just curious and I'm not able to get on the water to check for myself at the moment.
Thx,
Rob

[XxthejuicexX]

Does anyone know the fall rate for the 1/64th Trout Magnet, with and/or without a split shot?
Just curious and I'm not able to get on the water to check for myself at the moment.
Thx,
Rob

I've Wondered this too. Cue the Alpha signal.........

[Alphahawk]

A TM with a size B split shot takes approximately 42 seconds to fall to the bottom in 23 feet of water on a cast using 2# test mono....fluorocarbon speeds things up. Without a split shot it takes well over one minute twenty seconds...give or take. This is one of the reasons I have jig heads made with a #8 hook in 1/32....1/24...1/16...3/32 and for fishing Center Hill in 30 feet of water, I will pull out the tungsten.....expensive but it gets down quick.

Regards

[mfbab]

Thanks Alpha!!
So that would be roughly .55 feet per second with the BB shot and .29 feet per second without.

The reason I was asking is for a comparison to the typical winter spider rigging speed we use on Sardis, which is .3 mph. It's amazing that going .4 or .5, just a couple of tenths faster will generally kill your bite, but it's true in the cold water, we use chains, drift socks, whatever it takes to slow down.

At any rate, I had the idea of comparing that speed to the TM fall rate.
.3 mph would equate to a .44 fps fall rate, which is right in between the two trout magnet fall rates, weighted or unweighted :)
Now I need to figure out the math to replicate .3 mph on the reel-in speed:
On a 40' cast, you would have to take 90 seconds reeling it in to achieve a .3 mph retrieve!!