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North of 8

Posted 3/21/2022 12:10 PM (#1003727 - in reply to #1003722)
Subject: Re: Trolling boat set-up

Living in northern WI, when I troll by myself, I can only run one line. Most of the fish I have caught trolling have been short line, in the prop wash. However, last year just out of curiosity, I bought a planer board and ran it a little to make sure I knew how it worked, etc. My question is whether it is worth it when limited to one line to run it occasionally to the side behind a planer board. Seems that it would be but don't really know.
I still can't over catching musky that hit a bait being trolled 8-10 feet behind a working outboard. Almost 60 years ago when I first got to fish in northern WI, I often rowed the boat while my uncle cast and got chewed out if I made noise which was hard not to in a bare aluminum boat. Apparently musky didn't get the memo about noise.