..........Don't lie Ronnie, you rubbed the padding off your fingers mopping the floor for your wife, not fishing cuz! hahaha

quit telling my real life secrets, biatch! LOL!! I fished a few times last year... a FEW.... LOL! i havent been once this year, yet... LOL!! school, and my wife, both have my boys locked up in a jar on the fridge! I did get to drive the little aluminum boat around the lake for an hour... woooopieee.

dd22's always dive straight to a crack in a rock or brush regardless of water depth,lol

they always curve right towards bridge pilings, too!!! no matter if it's windy or dead still!!!

Doesn't the '22' in the name kind of give it away? Just askin'

It should... but they don't dive that deep. I've seen them hit 16-18 feet on 10 lb fluoro on a really long cast.

rite idk why i even bother with anything that dives deeper than 6 feet

who makes the 6XD ?

strike king

+1

Were you in the water with scuba gear on?

Here is a very good article on deep diving crank baits --
http://www.tackletour.com/reviewdeepdivers.html

On 10 lb I can snag the bottom out of reach of my 15 foot pole.

Larger lines I can get them back with extension pole to spare more in the 12' range.

I normally get about 16 ft. with 12 lb. fluoro and 14 ft. with 12 lb mono.

Try the Kneel and Reel technique it will add a foot or so to a long cast

I know...I was just being silly.

You two guys need to take some lessons from JR. He is the best at STROllING. That's how you get it past 22 ft. Why wear your arm out casting and casting never getting past 15 feet. Drifting or strolling with the trolling motor staying on the contour that the fish are stacked on; get it down there and keep it down there. You can do the same thing with a spinnerbait.
Once you catch a big one then you can start searching with fan casting around the area. If it doesn't work go back to strolling. This is an excellent technique to locating active fish, then set you boat up to start working on them.

According to Norman Lures (I think this might even be on the box): 15-18 ft on 10lb test line.

I have a book that is a compilation of a study on measured crankbait depths and I think the DD22 maxed out at about 15-16ft. I'll look it up when I get home.