Diving Board vs flatlines

[fishnNauru]

So was out the other day on a friends boat, fishing around Nauru. We were out near some feeding noddies and he had a winch and dive board and a very experienced halco 190 fire tiger and caught about everything.

I was flatline trolling with a rod and reel and he outfished me for 4 hrs.

The end tally was 2 yellowfin, 2 skipjack, a 9kg wahoo and rainbow runner. We lost two to the dolphins and another wahoo at the boat. Of the 9 hooked, 7 were on the dive board line. I even tried my halco fire tiger and the fish still wanted to eat his on the dive board. He reckons the board went down about 3m, and the lure about 1m.



So does anyone else use dive boards, and if so what ones and what do you run off them, and what is your set up.



I hate winches as they are too commercial and unsporting, but they sure help u get the fish in quick to avoid the flipper and shark thiefs. His winch had 200-300lb mono to the dive board (a #9 or #10 Yo-zuri at a guess)then 80lb trace of ~15m from db to the lure.



I hope to get my own large dive board and maybe rig my rod line off the back via a rubberband and keep the dive board on some heavy mono off a handline.



So...any dive board users willing to share their thoughts and insight and rigs???

I have a few small paravanes but i doubt they would keep a halco 190 2m diver down.

[Bert Rodgers]

Show us a pic of what you call a dive board. Here in the states we use planers and down riggers regularly especially for wahoo and bluefin tunas.

Bert

[fishnNauru]

here is a Yo-zuri dive board/diving board/ some may call it a paravane...but they are more pointy like an arrow head...and usually smaller for smaller lures.
Spoke to another fisherman this morning who reckoned the diving board will get down to about 15m...do real way to tell without a diver in the water with a measuring tape I guess
There are some bigger #20 size or more used by commercial fishermen that get pretty deep.
Planers are more for keeping lines left and right of the boat arent they as opposed to taking the line deeper???
Do you rig whatever u use for wahoo with a release clip or rubberband??? do you run skirts, hardbodies, or meat are lures?
The Wahoo we caught were closer to the reef and wanted his deeper lure, b4 they would come all the way up for mine...lazy mongrels