Planer Board Rods For Salmon
Make sure you use a planer board that corresponds to the side of the boat that your rod will be hanging from.
Planer board rods for salmon. To run these planer boards you need to have a few specialty items to make your program work well. These boards take our lines out to the side of the boat. Not sure of what you are looking for in a rod that fights a bt from a boat moving 3mph with an inline planer attached. This helps us to cover a wider swath of water.
When fishing with planer boards you must first decide where your rods attach to the boat. Looking for some comments about what rods to buy. Short rods in the 7 range make setting boards much easier. 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.
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. The public enemy of salmon trout and even walleye. They have enough backbone to fight big fish and they pull planer boards with ease when using heavy lines like copper and leadcore. 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.
This will create varying angles which will prevent your lines from tangling in the water. Good rod holders line counter reels and the right rods are a must. 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.
The 8 6 rods are perfect for trolling in line planer boards for salmon. The larger ones i use for pulling dipseys. Pulling planer boards whats the best rods. I have 14 mono on the smaller ones and 30 braid on the larger ones.
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. The smaller ones i use for walleyes board rods and as my down rigger rods for steelies. The boards are offshore. 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.
Also keeping the lines separated to effectively run more lures. Planer board clips or releases are attached to the planer board line and move freely along the length of the line. The 10 model is great for fishing dipsy divers. I have two sealine 27 s and two 47 s.
This item does not come with the tattle flag upgrade on it.