If they had a Flathead forum on c.c this thread should be a sticky. Tremendously good info given right here. I'm a crappie purest, but I have run some set lines with my son in law on lake Erling and wow did he catch some bigguns. There aren't any limbs left on any of the trees there so they would secure one end of a bungee strap to the trunk of a tree then tie the line to the other end and use a piece of pvc to stand it out from the trunk. This thread got me to thinking I might like to do that again sometime.