OK gents, I give, after two weeks of fighting the planer board craze I’m giving in…
I get the concept of planer boards, I’ll leave my riggers down, so let me ask the basic questions and maybe you can help me…
1) Which Planer board would you buy? Boaters World has Cannon Dual Planer Board for $69.00 & Alltackle.com has Cannon Elite Plane-R-Series Planer Board pair for $139.00. They look to be the same???
2) How much cord do you use, and what type, would 80lb mono work?? I’d like to fish 10-12 rods
3) How do you deploy and retrieve the boards? I guess you bring in the lines then stop the boat... Do you use 2 rods with 80lb mono or hand over hand them in???
4) What’s up with the line clips, Scotty Power Grip Release - No Leader, how you get them to the desired position on the cord with out them moving back and forth?
5) Do you put any lines out the back, probably short so if you hook up a planer line the line swings to the center line, clear of other lines???
Alot of guys have bought and been happy with a guy on TF who sells them...his board name is 27sailfish. I think alot of the boards stores sell are junk. Make sure they are 3 boards or they definitely are junk. Good luck
The Cannon boards are fine, but you are limited to two lines per board. We have some new three board collapsilbles coming in on Monday that pull great. We had some nice two board planers that pull fine for four lines.
Use 500#-800# mono for the board lines. 75' per side. Use 400# snap swivels on each end.
Use Scotty 1177 release clips, they work fine.
Run the lines from outside in 80',80',70',70',60',60' or something like this.
For retrieval, you can use Big Jon Planer Reels, or go to Home Depot and buy and electrical cord spooler.
For baits, run singles and tandems off the boards and umbrellas off the boat.
Call me and I will hook you up with the right stuff, no BS.
3 board planers definitely the way to go, you can run them in 3-4' chop. You can run 5 or 6 lines off each board. If you want Skip's number send me a PM. All stainless hardware, quality work. The boards run I think $125, most expensive thing to buy.
For the line, I use weedeater string. Get it at Home Depot cheap, buy 0.105 dia.
I bought 280' for 7 bucks. Alot cheaper than mono and I've been using the same line for 3 years now.
You don't need reels to retrieve them. After you have all your lines clear, say you start with the port side turn the boat sharply to port and just pull the line in by hand and wrap it around the board. If you want to use reels to retrieve them go to Walmart and buy some electric cord wind-on reels, couple bucks a piece and they work great.
You don't need Scotty clips either, I mean they're great but too expensive for my wallet. Go buy about 4-6 dozen plastic shower curtain rings, $1 dozen and a bag of size 32 rubber bands.
Here's the way I run them
Deploy boards, run fishing line out whatever you want, I do 50-70 feet, depends on how long your planer board line is. I run 100' off each side. So the first one deployed is out around 170'.
Double wrap band around you fishing line and hook shower curtain ring to the planer board line. Hook band to the ring, free-spool fishing line and ring down the line. It will automatically run to the end of the board.
Do the same with the rest of your lines, spacing them evenly from the board to the boat.
Say you get a strike on the furthest line out, band breaks and the line comes directly to the center of the boat. None of your other lines will be in the way. To redeploy the line you just caught a fish on, just move the other lines down towards the board, get a new ring and band and follow the steps above. The first line you put out now becomes the one closest to the boat.
Shower curtain rings eventually make their way to the board and you recover them when you recover your boards.
That's why you need a bunch. That's why Scotty's will set you back a little. 50 would be the minimum I would go with if you buy them.
Couple tips
Don't forget to double the band around the fishing line. It will slip if you don't.
Don't buy the "premium" type bands, they don't always break
If you are trolling Umbrella Rigs use either 2 size 32 bands or 1 size 64 band.
If you're in the Northern- Mid Bay area I can give you my number, more than happy to show you how to run them.
This might be too much info, sorry
Edit, forgot part of the ?
Yes we run lines off the stern short and deep. Just as you said clear them when you have a fish on.
I make DualFin an in-line planer board but I can't say they can handle a rough chop or speeds beyond 2mph yet. I finished the design 3 months ago and in Ohio it was already too cold to put the boat in.
I can say I learned a lot about planer boards thru development of the BulletBobber.
For $15.00 you might want to give them a try if you don't like them send them back for full refund.
i run about 20 lines on our boat. NO 80lb. will not work i use commerical grade weed wacker string works great and very visable!!! I use the 3 V boards they run hard and true. Were are you fishing and for what?? any qestions PM me!!
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