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I got a question. I was watching the beginning of the show DD posted the link to ealrier and when they set their line length they made their inside pole longer and as they went out they were shortening them up, this confuses me.
I pull from the sides of my boat as well but I make my outside poles the longest and the inside the shortest. The reason being is that I can raise the rod that gets a hit and go to the back of the boat and bring the fish in the center not getting tangled in the other lines.
Does everyone else have their inside poles as their longest lines??

inside,have less lines out,thats how i do it

I stagger my lines just until I find the right line out, them set em all at that length. It doesn't seem to matter whether it's their way or yours. I've done it both ways with good results. I try to werk my fish to the side of the rear deck. Once they come up, it's easy to cross em over the other lines.


BRM

Anybody on here ever use planer boards?I've been trolling cranks in smaller residential lakes like Woodland and 1 day I decided I would try to use some planer boards that I had bought.With the boards, I was able to use the same 6'6" rods that I used for bass fishing.I had 4 rods off the back side and the boards pulled the 2 outside lines out wider. You can adjust how wide you want your spread. They worked great. I was trolling deep shadraps size 7 in a shad pattern. That's what they seemed to want.With no rattles because the water was clear.I caught 15 nice crappie, a largemouth that weighed 7#6ounces and a Hybrid that weighed 13#'s.I noticed that most of the fish came off the planer board rods.I think the water being clear and the sound the trolling motor was making caused the fish further out to the side to reaction strike as the bait went by! It was a bit harder reeling in the lines with the boards,but they helped keep my lines seperated. I was able to use rods that were the same leingth that I already had for crankin.Back when I started pullin cranks, you never heard of anybody doing it for crappie. Maybe, it was a closely guarded secret then, I don't know.I know I got some wierd looks from other fishermen and got checked all the time by lake patrol at Woodland Lake.I never ever dreamed any of these good old boys would ever use drift socks but they do.Sometime's it's good to experiment. It could teach you a valuable lesson!!

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That dang yankee Speck uses em.

There are several of the guys on here that use planer boards. I use 2 7ft rods out the back and a 14ft on each side.

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Originally Posted by Rees Guide

That dang yankee Speck uses em.

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YANKEE????? YANKEE?????? I'll have you know, I was born in Houston, TX!!!!! Lol

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Transplanted yankee then!!RoflRoflRoflRofl

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Originally Posted by SlabLapper4sure

Anybody on here ever use planer boards?

OLD GEEZER FISHERMEN NEVER DIE,THEY JUST SMELL THAT WAY!!

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If you search the archives, Jeff White wrote a great article on planers a few years ago.
Tim Huffman also wrote a great article in an on line magazine about cranking and featured Yikess pulling planers.

Rees, I know there are some that do it that way. Longest on the outside. Bigger pulls em that way, I guess it's just a preference is all cause he says he don;t get tangled much either. Main this is keep 10-15 feet of line difference from pole to pole so they don't get tangle

Jeff wrote a good one on pulling cranks as well

Has anyone used the Dipsy Divers yet? I picked up 2 to try this year. It takes the crank out and down.

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Originally Posted by DonDon

Rees, I know there are some that do it that way. Longest on the outside. Bigger pulls em that way, I guess it's just a preference is all cause he says he don;t get tangled much either. Main this is keep 10-15 feet of line difference from pole to pole so they don't get tangle

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That's how I pull em, longest on the outside. In the vid they were pulling with the inside the longest

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Longest on the inside.

When Major and I went to the Grizzly Tackle Show I listened to Kent Driscoll's siminar on pulling cranks. He has his inside pole with the longest line out. His reason is, when the boat passes over a school of crappie, the fish will drift off to the sides until the boat is gone. Then they will come back together. With the inside poles having more line out, the fish should be back in the path of the boat by the time the bait comes by.

I pull them all the same length....no problem with tangles.......I do have 4ft. Of separation between the lines though.

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I start with the longest lines on the outside 10 to 15 ft line difference. When a target depth is located I "narrow" them up a bit never closer that 5 ft difference. I pull with my trolling motor so fish seperation isnt really an issue for me.

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Originally Posted by ScottV

When Major and I went to the Grizzly Tackle Show I listened to Kent Driscoll's siminar on pulling cranks. He has his inside pole with the longest line out. His reason is, when the boat passes over a school of crappie, the fish will drift off to the sides until the boat is gone. Then they will come back together. With the inside poles having more line out, the fish should be back in the path of the boat by the time the bait comes by.

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I know he knows WAY more than I do but I caught alot of fish last year with my inside pole going straight back off the corner of my boat and it being the short line, sometimes as little as 35 foot out. I do use a trolling motor, actually 2, one on the back and one one the front.

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Nevermind, I though you were talking about pole lengths.

Yea like bigger said, I don't think you have to worry about spooking the fish when using your trolling motor unless you are fishing clear water. We don't have to worry much about clear water on any of the COE lakes. I normally pull 6 poles off the back with 4 ft of line separation and I let out more line with my center pole. The reason is that my inside poles, next to the motor are angled up at 45 deg so they won't get pulled out of the holders. So my line isn't going into the water till about 20 ft back. Your true line measurement is from where the line hits the water to your bait.

I've always ran with my two inside rods at the shorter length. When I started trolling we used planer boards all the time and it was a lot easier to "steer" the fish into the free water directly behind the boat if a fish strikes your long outside line you can get it to the surface and ski it to the clean water behind the boat without worrying about tangling your two shorter inboard lines. Old habits die hard I suppose. I will fish with the same length of line out on all rods when I find a pattern the fish are liking but always stagger as mentioned above when I start my search pattern.

In refernce to planer board for crappie, I have only sen one other boat on my home body of water that is about 10,0000 acres at summer pool use planer boards. So while I get a lot of questions and conversations that start on the water, I also have also had whole bunch of boaters that do not respect my lines when I am in full spread. Double edged sword, but it is a very effective means of boating more fish, especially in pressured waters.

I'm confused a little with all this inside,outside stuff.If you pull out the back why does it matter the length of robs.

Pulling off the sides. Havent pulled out the back any.

It's all about line separation to keep the tangles down... I can pull 8 and push 2 cranks at a time and as Bigger said get them within 5' of same amount of line out

We have pulled from the side using the front rod holder.All you have to do is set the holder on an angle and fan the robs up and down.

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We have pulled from the side using the front rod holder.All you have to do is set the holder on an angle and fan the robs up and down.

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Dont be giving away any secrets gewber.

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Dont be giving away any secrets gewber.

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Rofl:bash

Im just overly cautous i recon. After some of the tangles ive had i just got careful

I know that this is changing the subject some, but do yall seem to get more strikes on cranks when you speed up and slow down? And when you are turning so the inside poles slow down but the outsides lures speed up? And something else I've noticed that when fishing slows if you speed up almost to high that a crappie will jump all over a crank. I don't know if the speed causes a tighter wobble and vibration or if the crappie thinks that the bait is getting away and decides to nail it!Also does everyone tune your cranks to track straight each time you put them out?Just some questions I was querious about!Does everyone Use braid when trolling and what size? I'm kinda like Larry, the only way to learn, is to ask a question??

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