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Personally I don't care for the Church boards in that I may be the odd man out. On the other hand My planer board spreads consistently run wider and look better. Second there is not one out of the package board that really works well on a variety of setups. That may change in the future. For many the clip it on and run it simplicity of the Church Walleye board is good enough so you will hear lots of people say they are great. Those same people will drag them around like a flock of ducks behind their boats all day long. To me the purpose of a planer board is to gain width in your spread. So I have spent years doing that and have gotten pretty good at it. What I have found is there is no big gain between the Church Walleye Board and the Off Shore OR12 until you begin making changes to them or go fast. I can't get a Walleye Board to not dive at higher speeds. You will also have to decide if you want them to trip or not for me most of my setups do not trip this means you have to fight the board and the fish till you get the board in and remove it. Having it not trip allows me to run much more aggressive angles and setups to gain width without false releases. So what would I recommend my first choice is Off Shore OR12 with some minor mods done to it. 2nd would be the Yellow Birds not as easy to tune but once you learn them they will run better.

Near perfect weather calm water and mixed fishing action depending on if you found the fish or not. Congrats to Drift for 1st place and big fish 18.5 lbs On the Fly took 2nd and Storyteller took 3rd. Full results

Welcome back Rich it has been tooo long.

was slow for us as well went south to the nets and trolled west from 120 to 200 picked up one 12lb Steelhead going west trolled northeast a bit then trolled back in and got a 6lb king after sunset.

Fish Hawk is giving a complete X4 unit for big fish of the year in our tourney series if I win it my Depth Raider will likely be for sale or you could come and join in the tourney and try and win it yourself. 3 more to go this year and big fish are going to show up soon. We fish out of Muskegon and is DNR 3 man rules start at 6 am in front of pier heads and weigh in at 1pm Grand Trunk boat launch. lots of cool sponsor prizes a chance to win some cash and maybe get a Fish Hawk as well. Worst you can do is spend the day fishing entry is 40 bucks per plus a one time 10 dollar captains fee to join the group. Oh and even if you can't catch a fish we have a second chance drawing for 100 bucks cash every event.

Tied to front cleats and run a little behind midship. Never in the way and keep pressure on the bow also if I need to I can un hook the rear lines and they become sea anchors with no other changes. This way they slow the boat keep down pressure on the bow and help stabilize roll. Having a rear line does 3 things it keeps the bags from going under the boat makes them easy to retrieve ( just pull them up from the rear line ) and if your front line breaks you don't lose the bag happened 2 years ago. Once I tuned mine to the boat I have never changed the rope settings. They go in and out in seconds so if I want a fast troll I pull them if I want to stay on a target speed I run them.

Most of my big fish were in the early 70's Biggest kings were snagging at Croton several 40lb fish up there over the years it was legal. Biggest king trolling was Muskegon in 73 36lb on a flat fish behind a pink lady diver. Biggest fish ever was a 6ft Sturgeon caught in Canada in 71 it was land locked and only had about a 1/4 mile of creek deep enough for it to swim in took 2 of us close to 4 hours to land it and drag it across the sand bar to deeper water. Best part was Nick caught it on a 404 Zebco with 20 lb test we took turns running up and down the creek bank to fight it sometimes in the water with it.

http://www.amazon.com/50A-Digital-Motor-Speed-Controller/dp/B004M5NKH4#productDescription Put that in front of the up down switch and have complete motor control up or down with no loss in power.

I sure will be glad when my boat is fixed running that far in a small boat is tuff work. we were 5 for 6 in 80 to 130 from the 16's to the 19's north troll was also best. Had one throw back laker so ended with 4 fish and our mercy fish which I landed 10 min before we pulled lines was a 13.1 lb Steelhead 82 down on a rigger doing stop starts going north.

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Finally came to terms with my budget and ordered a motor for my boat. So after sitting on the trailer for a year it will be back together sometime in July. New Motor is a 383 390hp at 4550 and 456ftlbs at 4250 so I can put the fast prop back on and maybe go to a even faster prop. As my old motor got tired I had to de-prop to keep the RPM's where I wanted them and still preform decent. Using my saved data from when I bought the boat this will put me back at a 33 to 34 mph cruise at 3400 RPM. The extra HP will however add over 1000 RPM's to top end which with the 17 will put me in the mid 50mph range if it will pull a 19 that would give me a chance at 60 plus. That might be fun but less fish able. This motor will make nearly 100hp more at 5500 than my old motor made at 4200 which is where it maxed out with the 17 prop when I bought it 7 years ago.