03-11-2003, 06:28 AM
I am a huge fan of planer boards! I love them to death! I fish it by myself, and it's no problem. I do exactly what walleye Bob, Tom P. and BLM just told you.
I don't think they ever answered how to do it by yourself. Allow me to indulge in this subject.
You will have the options of a heavy duty clip or a light duty clip.
Lighter ones will allow the line to break loose once the fish is on. The drawback is, after you bring the fish in, you gotta drive your boat over to pick up the planer. It sucks because you will scare off future walleyes.
The second way is to use the heavy duty clip to bring the planer board toward the boat, then put the middle of your pole between your legs, and quickly snap the planer board, then quickly bring your fish in. All this is done while the boat is still trolling, this is to ensure heavy duty hook sets so not to lose your fish.
I prefer the heavy duty clip (they are black) so to keep on fishing the same area that you caught your fish.
The beautiful thing about planers, is that you can just about do anything with it, troll bottom bouncers, crankbaits, jigs, spinners, and just a sinker with a hooked worm.
The reason why planer boards are so important- the boat and its motor will scare off walleyes and other fish. They usually move to the side of the boat. There has been some talk of ions... some sort of electricity from your trolling motors, and transducers that produce positive/negative feeling thus scaring fish to the side of your boat.
Planers are a heck of lot of fun for wipers at Willard Bay... You do not want to drive/troll through those wiper boils, so you go to the side of it and cirle around the boils. Yahooooo fish on!!!!
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I don't think they ever answered how to do it by yourself. Allow me to indulge in this subject.
You will have the options of a heavy duty clip or a light duty clip.
Lighter ones will allow the line to break loose once the fish is on. The drawback is, after you bring the fish in, you gotta drive your boat over to pick up the planer. It sucks because you will scare off future walleyes.
The second way is to use the heavy duty clip to bring the planer board toward the boat, then put the middle of your pole between your legs, and quickly snap the planer board, then quickly bring your fish in. All this is done while the boat is still trolling, this is to ensure heavy duty hook sets so not to lose your fish.
I prefer the heavy duty clip (they are black) so to keep on fishing the same area that you caught your fish.
The beautiful thing about planers, is that you can just about do anything with it, troll bottom bouncers, crankbaits, jigs, spinners, and just a sinker with a hooked worm.
The reason why planer boards are so important- the boat and its motor will scare off walleyes and other fish. They usually move to the side of the boat. There has been some talk of ions... some sort of electricity from your trolling motors, and transducers that produce positive/negative feeling thus scaring fish to the side of your boat.
Planers are a heck of lot of fun for wipers at Willard Bay... You do not want to drive/troll through those wiper boils, so you go to the side of it and cirle around the boils. Yahooooo fish on!!!!
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