Well there are a few things you can do. First of all if you buy a drift sock, go with the biggest you can find. You will regret it if you dont. You can also use 5 gallon buckets, they work well. get 2 of them , drill a hole in the bottom of each maybe a couple quarter size holes in the bottom of each. Then take just eough rope to each and drop them off the side. Use your judgement so they wont be in the way of fighting fish. The holes make it alot easier o pull up if you need to get them out of the way to land that double digit.
There is also a device that will give you a very accuarate speed. I'll include the link. There are days I wish i had one on my boat even with my gps. I took a perfectly flat glass like day and i dropped one of my downrigger balls down 10ft. I made sure the gps speed was 2.0 mph. I then measured the angle of the downrigger cable off the boom so that if for some reason the gps isnt working i have a backup. I hope some of this helps you. Take a look at the link.
http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templ ... hasJS=true
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