I see alot of people running inlines. I don't own any personally but I see where they would be useful over big boards. When your running tight waters, at night along the breakwall , you can tuck a board up close to the wall and easily retrieve it. In spring when everybody is frantically trolling around on circles. I see more and more people running inlines like I just mentioned. Big boards I've always seen and used in big open water. When you want to cover alot of water big boards are the way to go.