11-26-2011, 08:16 PM
There are several companies that make planer boards you can use from shore. Some of the smaller ones can be cast out into the current and allow your bait or lures to be fished like you were out in a boat above the hole you are trying to fish.
The bigger boards require deeper water to float them out to the objective area. Deeper water at the bank because you have to start out with what ever set back from the boards you intend to use.
The boards float and simply have a front angle that pulls away from the rod position on the shoreline sending them out almost perpendicular to the bank fisherman.
Most of these units are inline (attached to your line) and require fighting the fish with what amounts to a huge bobber on your line. I do have a model that is attached to a separate braided line and has a release that allows the fish to pull free when it hits your lure or bait.
The advantage to the separate model is you can attach your line 20' from the lure, send the planer out into the current 20 feet and simply throw your lure down stream and it swings behind the planer board. These are much easier to launch then the inlines.
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The bigger boards require deeper water to float them out to the objective area. Deeper water at the bank because you have to start out with what ever set back from the boards you intend to use.
The boards float and simply have a front angle that pulls away from the rod position on the shoreline sending them out almost perpendicular to the bank fisherman.
Most of these units are inline (attached to your line) and require fighting the fish with what amounts to a huge bobber on your line. I do have a model that is attached to a separate braided line and has a release that allows the fish to pull free when it hits your lure or bait.
The advantage to the separate model is you can attach your line 20' from the lure, send the planer out into the current 20 feet and simply throw your lure down stream and it swings behind the planer board. These are much easier to launch then the inlines.
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