Friday nite was beautiful. Movies @ McGuire had a hundred or so boats watching a ■■■■■ in front of the nucular reactors on the inflatable big screen. Kinda cool. The fishing sucked, couple short runoffs.
Sat afternoon headed north, got so much bait in one throw i couldn’t lift the net over the wall. Went up to the state park and hit some good fish. Lost one a few feet from the net that woulda gone 30", heartbreaker. Then bamed a few this size to lift our spirits.
No fishing next weekend. Alex qualified to swim 7 events in the NC Junior Olympics. He’ll get his butt handed to him, but we’re still proud of him.
Murray and Norman are alot alike and fish very similar and very big. That planer was probably set at 50 - 80 feet down. The jackholes were out this weekend, it was a rough ride during the day, but none took my planers. The lake is hot right now, we usually fish deep during the summer months. Winter bring more surface action with stripers. You guys are more than welcome to come up here and try, it took me about 5 years to figure out, but a good day is still not getting skunked. The man has a heavy presents out here, no less than 5 law enforcements agencies have men on the water or at the ramps on Norman so keep it straight if you come up.
this is either my inexperience or my stupidness asking this question but how do you set a planar board 50’ deep? my whole thinking of a planar board was to troll with it out beside the boat w/the bait freelined behind the board 10-20’ could someone spread some light and teach me something please?
Hey man, it might be me not knowing what I’m doing. Seriously, no one ever tought me how to use planers; I just kept playn’ with them till I started catching fish with them. So I might be doing it wrong. I run up to 4 planers to get the lines out to cover more water. I use a 1 - 2 oz egg above the swivel before the leader during the summer to take the bait to the depth I want, then clip it just tight enough so it won’t come out to the planer. If I’m running the river channel, the planers on the bank side will be set shallower, the ones in the channel will be set DEEP. I try to keep the boat running the edge. During the winter, I’ll use freelines on the planers, but right now freelines are only catching spot, white, and largemouth basses.
ok cool. thats how i thought it would be done, but i tried this and will i think i my planars are too small cause they just sank…lol… my i ask how big your planars (what kind) are in order to hold up a two ounce, i would be really interested in this method.
I have a set of planers that will only work right with weight on them. they are small, but they are all foam so you need weight to get them to cut into the water. The others I used for freelines do not work right with weight.
Yea they’re big, bout 10 inchs long and 4 high. It’s got a adjustable slide weight on the bottom you can adjust according to the weight you are pulling. Getting the right balance can be tricky, but when the board goes underwater backwards, it’s usually a fish. I’ll get a pic this evening of them so you can see what I mean. The real little ones I only use in the winter.
