Place a bead beteen the egg sinker and the swivel to protect your knot. ScottV and SteveJ push and pull at the same time......Scott pushes 4 poles and pulls 4 poles all from the front of the boat. I have been with him doing this and it works great. I did not keep up with the count but we caught a lot of fish on the four push poles. He ran the TM at 1.8 mph. He used 3 oz. weights on the push poles if I remember right.