Planer Board Rods For Salmon

The smaller ones i use for walleyes board rods and as my down rigger rods for steelies.

Planer board rods for salmon.

These boards take our lines out to the side of the boat. They have enough backbone to fight big fish and they pull planer boards with ease when using heavy lines like copper and leadcore. This helps us to cover a wider swath of water. I really like my clients to haul the fish in quickly the small fish come right in and can be released quickly the larger ones fight ok.

The 8 6 rods are perfect for trolling in line planer boards for salmon. To run these planer boards you need to have a few specialty items to make your program work well. This item does not come with the tattle flag upgrade on it. I have 14 mono on the smaller ones and 30 braid on the larger ones.

2 pack off shore planer board or12r right or12l left side planer walleye salmon the or12r and or12l side planer are carefully ballasted to run flawlessly in rough water off of your rod line. Short rods in the 7 range make setting boards much easier. The 7 and 8 3 models are excellent planer board rods while the 9 model is great for downrigger fishing. Whats the best rods for this app.

Planer board clips or releases are attached to the planer board line and move freely along the length of the line. Make sure you use a planer board that corresponds to the side of the boat that your rod will be hanging from. Shakespeare ugly stik bigwater trolling rods similar to their spinning rods shakespeare ugly stik bigwater trolling rods are designed to withstand hard use. I have two sealine 27 s and two 47 s.

When fishing with planer boards you must first decide where your rods attach to the boat. Pulling planer boards whats the best rods. The boards are offshore. The larger ones i use for pulling dipseys.

The 10 model is great for fishing dipsy divers. Just after ice out in late winter when the waters of southern lake michigan warm up thousands of salmon fisherman swarm to the ports of indiana and illinois to troll the shore lines for wild coho and fighting steelhead. Looking for some comments about what rods to buy. I will be pulling cranks and harnesses i was thinking 8 9 and telescoping for sure this is where you guys the pros add your two cents.

Also keeping the lines separated to effectively run more lures. When anglers are fishing with a trolling rod and reel setup they attached their fishing line to the planer release and let line off the spool until the lure has traveled the desired distance down the planer line. The public enemy of salmon trout and even walleye. I have 4 of the smaller bps trolling combos and 4 of the larger ones as well.

This will create varying angles which will prevent your lines from tangling in the water.