A fishing trolling down rigger has a body with left-side and right-side arm attachments, a lure-receiving tail, and arms extending from the left and right sides of the body descend towards weedless, snag-free weights so as to naturally orient the rig with the lure above the bottom of a body of water at a desired distance or height. In at least one embodiment, the arms may be repositioned to form a greater or lesser angle with the body in order to raise or lower the desired height from the bottom at which the lure is positioned at the end of the tail. In another configuration or embodiment, the rig provides for controlled-depth surface fishing.