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Location: Ottawa Lake, MI | Never really used a planer boards too much but was thinking about trying one out. I fish alone 90 percent of the time. Is it a good idea to try using a inline planer board or is it a disaster waiting to happen. Trying to take a board off, while fighting and netting sounds like it could be tough. Any advice would be great. Thanks |
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Location: Maine Township, MN | Sure does help to have a helper to remove the board. In MN we can only have 1 line per person, so I've always had helpers running a spread. |
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Location: Smith Creek | About the only way to do it is to set them to break loose and run down the line. Then you have a whole new set of problems.
Smaller sized Dipsies set to run out away from the boat work ok too. |
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Location: Algonac, MI | Why not just use a standard planer board, with a release. Then, there are no worries about taking the inline off, during the fight.
IMO - much easier when alone. |
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Location: oswego, il | I use my church boards alone never had an issue. I just unhook the front clip and it slides to the leader. No issues. |
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Location: WI | You can replace the rear clip with a stay-lok snap (#4) so all you'd have to do is pop the front one off. I've caught a fair amount of fish solo on boards, and they'll get some slack sometimes when taking them off, but I've pretty good luck so far. Another option is keeping the boat in gear until you get the board off to maintain pressure on the fish.
If you're running things shallow enough you can keep the board on while netting. |
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Inline planer boards while fishing alone