Easy Question for the Expeienced

[MasterKraft]

Ok, so I finally broke down and tried trolling on wednesday. I got a fluke 14" out near west sister right away then nothing. I was using mini discs because of the ability to use the directional adjustment. After a couple hours I realized I probably couldnot get any deeper than 20' no matter how much line I let out. I ran up to Monroe and ran around in 22' and did very well even though they were shorts. I got one keeper and lost 3 that were also big enough to keep. Netting by yourself with a 6 foot leader is somewhat of a chore. Lol. So do you guys change the treble on stinger spoons? Do you add a stinger behind the treble?
Another easy one. Can I run Tru-tips being my Church boards, is that the only way to keep them from coming together behind the boat? Thanks in advance! You guys with all the answers have my respect and all the help is greatly appreciated!
BTW, I was using spoons very similar to Purple demon, but without the pink dots 140'back at about 2.4 mph. I was about halfway between Detroit Edison and Toledo Harbor light.

[itsbob]

Most people don't change treble on spoons or put stingers on them.Think church are brand of inline boards.The trutrip 40 is used Alot by charters with the big boards.I have used them on my inline boards,but I feel they they pull too hard.I want my device that gets lure down to pull less than possible.I feel I can read the boards better that way.We use the #2 tadpole to depth of around 25 ft than if need to go deeper put on a 3oz sinker.Good luck.Takes years to be productive using new technipues.Thid forum speeds it up.

[branhamautomotive]

We lowered the rear attaching location for the flag, this helps the nose come down and the board pull harder out. The hard part is getting the flags still to work. Just have to play with springs and location, every day depending on the waves it takes a different setting on the flags, bigger waves take a stronger setting, on calmer days I can lighten it up to read smaller fish better. We still end up reading the board as much as the flag. With 3 on side it makes it easier to see 1 board doing something different than just 2. We use releasing clips up front and lockers in the rear. We don't normally have to pull of move boards to get outside boards to clear inside ones. With releases they simple fall back put of line much like a clip coming off a big board set up. When we go back out we don't shuffle board, the middle board goes back to middle same as the outside. Makes it easy to remember depth we were set at plus I normally run my shallows setting on the outside. Fish are not as spoked by the boat, plus it I have a release hang up its easier to get a shallow setting to pass over the deeper without tangle than it is the other way around.

I also try to keep the distance between my boards the same. For example I might put the outside + 100 over feet back, the middle might be +75, and the inside might be +50. When there are not a lot of boats I will spread them more apart running 150/100/50.

The extra space helps reduce tangles but makes turns harder, as much as I hate doing it, sometime I pull the 2 outside boards on the inside b4 turns. I can turn faster without worring about laying tbe boards over and tangling up. The downside is I have less lines in on a turn and turns can be some of the most productive times. Plus they give me an idea of speed changes depending on if fish come on the inside or outside a couple turns in row I will have a idea of speed up or slow down

[Wally GATOR gitter]

Branham.. I like the way this set up sounds !! iv been considering loosning my front clips so they snap out and pull back. My question is, do u loose more boards this way? This has been my fear and is why I've hesitated doing this . and how do you set a middle or outside board back without moving the others and getting Tangled iv tried but failed. Thanks in advance!

[WVHillbilly]

I have run TT-40s behind my Church's Inline boards with some success though they do pull awfully hard. I second what MasterKraft says, use the tadpoles. They aren't that expensive to get started and work well. I have both and use the tadpoles a bunch more. I believe you can get more depth with shorter leads on the tadpoles as well depending on speed of course.

[Frank]

Yes you can run your tt behind your boards, I just use the stock hooks. I have up sized them on some of my spoons, if I have a color that is working good and buy matching ones I just use the stock hooks, I only go up one size,to big and it will effect the performance. Tt 40s is what most of the charters use. You can listen in on the radio and get feet back sometimes,if you have charts, you can use that to run different lures or the same lures

[captainshotgun]

I usually change trebles to singles on all my spoons. When you have 2 or 3 or more fish on at a time you can clear hooks out of both the net and the fish with single hooks. Also when it is fairly calm I run my main line to a three way swivel & run a deep diver crank off 1 leg & a spoon off of the other leg. When you get two fish on 1 line, 2 trebles is enough to deal with.

[PDnaz]

I use OR 18 on the back, I have never lost a board.

[Frank]

I run a shorter leader when fishing by myself, the netting issue cost me a huge fish last year. When by myself I get the fish in front of the net and drop them back to the net, that way most of the fish is in the net before the hooks get there

[branhamautomotive]

I run a shorter leader when fishing by myself, the netting issue cost me a huge fish last year. When by myself I get the fish in front of the net and drop them back to the net, that way most of the fish is in the net before the hooks get there

X2 we do the same thing, plus if the fish comes off due to slack a lit of time with the net behind them they just slide right into the net