JETS & TRU-TRIP 40's

[ebijack]

I never found the curves to be even close on either. I ran my jets along with partners TT's. And mine would release much easier and consistent than the TT's.
But that's me.

[BtweenShots]

Having spent most of my life working I finally started to make changes to my life and added fishing to it and this was only a short time ago, what I know about fishing I learned on my own. I equipped my duck boat with Big Jon mast some Scotty rod holders chose Okuma for rods and reels. I still have those and equipped my current boat with the same exceptions only rod holders are Tite-lok. I have never changed my releases still the Off Shores. I never went in on the rubber bands, I try them now and then but find them sort of a pain. The diver issue has only become an issue only a few years age when TT's came out and had to get them through Dan. I was only using the 20's at that time. When I started this inline boards had not even really taken off here on the WB. As you see I don't change much. I did add 2 dedicated combo's for dipsy use and may try TT 50's I got them with the 2 combos for dipsys. Yes Okuma reels and Shakespeare rods. So I think it's time to change my hat from NEWBIE to EQUIPMENT MGR. But to this day I still consider myself as a NEWBIE, and the question(s) I may ask. Thanks guys for the helpful answers.

Ebijack, I have no intentions on acquiring any Kwikfish it seems quite funny I could not find any weight info on them and any place I have seen them were on tables at garage sales for 50 cents.

Capt. Eric, having the TT 50's is making me want to try them out and I'm pretty sure I cannot run them off the boards. Hey!!All I can say is "I hav'um".

Because of current health issues my boat partner has asked me to mark the boxes as to how to, with what, and when every thing should be used. I could only laugh.

Gene

[ebijack]

Thanks Bob.
Just as a note. You can run a 3oz weight attached under a #40 jet and get down around 57ft. And less line out. 2.5 to 2.7 mph. I've hit bottom in 65 ft near the line from Vermilion with that method. Just too much line out.
I just stopped using the jets and purchased swivel weights from 4oz to 10oz. I haven't had that much of a problem snagging bottom. Even over here in Brestbay. Or up at Saginawbay. But I do use swivel round/bell shaped weights. Maybe that's the difference.

[branhamautomotive]

We run 40tt behind offshore board with the flags, they do take a few small adjustments on the older boards to do this, the new flags that have the holes help alot, we were able to drop the rubber bands after installing the new design flags.

I don't change the location of my boards or rotate them, the outside board stays the outside, middle the stay middle, so when a fish comes in it goes back out straight out the back then it swings back into place once tightened up. But in doing it this way it makes it hard to use weights unless in deeper waters cause in shallower water it will find the bottom b4 the boards gets far enough back to reach it potion. This if running spoons or harness causes issues. I like tadpoles too but ran into the same problem. Same thing cam happen with any weighted system if running near bottom even on a turn, the inside stuff will drop depth and the outside will rise...not so much a bad thing till the spoon plug's up with muscle shells or you rip the worm off the harness........maybe the dropper depth helps keep this from happening compared to a snap weight system. But I can also see with that dropper hanging down ad lines pass over each othe it could cause it to get into each other.

Most important thing is there are several methos that do work, play around, figure out which one works best for your own liking and fishing styles, they have issues, they all have good points

[ebijack]

Gene, if you use your tattle flags for what they were designed for. I believe you are missing out not using #32 rubberbands. Just a few seconds to adjust perfectly to any bait you are going to run. Springs can not be adjusted anywhere near as close. You can set each flag to move even with just a piece of grass dragging on a hook. Or tight enough, a 3 oz weight will not move that flag with a deep diving crank until a fish plays/takes the bait. This is from back early 2000's? Clip a small"V" where the top hole on each board is. That locks the rubberband into any amount of tension you set. Easy peasy.




$7 for 1lb bag. Enough for you and everyone you know for the next 10 yrs.
Just look around, if in stock you can get nice size bags for $1

[ebijack]

Limited to 4 photos..... Back to the Offshore boards,
Around 2006 I dropped the rear back side eyelet to the same location the eyelet from the from side was removed. Not straight back like factory. Which helped the Offshore boards run much better. New for 2016 Offshore lowered the rear eyelet location to help the boards run better.
Here was one of my jet 40's using the black Offshore clip.


In my boat, I stopped running jets, dipsey's, inlines etc. I found 90% of the time I didn't need to carry/use all that stuff. One smaller box of weights upto 4oz's. And a bag with the 6 to 10oz weights. Enough to cover the water column using upto 10 rods. No need to run 200, 300+ ft of line out. I'm lazy.

[ebijack]

You should see a difference when running hard pulling baits/weights. And in rough water.

[itsbob]

Ebijack,looked at my boards yesterday and illustration of Offshore new boards.Looks like eyelet on new boards is halfway down on the front of the board.On our boards with the tattle flag that goes up and down,the eyelet is on rear of board but near top edge.To move eyelet down to middle will have to place through piece of black plastic that holds Styrofoam in place.Would you mind send photo of where eyelet placed back of board.Thanks

[ebijack]

Ebijack,looked at my boards yesterday and illustration of Offshore new boards.Looks like eyelet on new boards is halfway down on the front of the board.On our boards with the tattle flag that goes up and down,the eyelet is on rear of board but near top edge.To move eyelet down to middle will have to place through piece of black plastic that holds Styrofoam in place.Would you mind send photo of where eyelet placed back of board.Thanks

Easy Bob. I removed those black plastic pieces. Never found that I needed them to hold the flag for storage. You can make/cut washers out of those when making your tattle flags so the flags rotate without tightening the screw. If that makes sense.
Use a 1/16" ? drill bit. The diameter of the eyelet screw shank, smaller than the threads. Drill thru from the front side where you removed the eyelet from the front side. It's just plastic. No problems. Screw in eyelet. It should be directly opposite the original hole.
Also, if you have some crimps, #30 braid. You can eliminate the wire that pulls the rear clip/flag. I switched that a few years ago also. No more bent wires to straighten. Works as good or better.

[Bankangler]

Itsbob, if you go to Offshore’s website, there are photos of the new boards. I moved my arms and the boards work fine when pulling try trips and weighted cranks of 2-3 ounces. When I pull cranks with no weight and spinners with 1 ounce or less and small tadpoles, the boards get pulled under very easily when a fish hits. I move my spring arms back to the top of the board for unweighted cranks,spinners, and small tadpoles.