Things that you find odd???

[branhamautomotive]

All this is why I like my releasing clips, they do have to wrapped correctly or they dont release and they did take some getting used to. But now I love them, just a small flick and around its coming.........and longer a 3 way fight..........
When reeling in with the board running you have the boat going forward, board going out, fish pulling back, with the board running you can't feel if the fish is swimming up getting slack in the line.

Using releasing clips will also allow you to run shallow leads away from the boat into the water where the fish might now be spooked by the boat as it could with the shallow lead being in the inside.

Neither way is wrong or right just a different way of doing the same thing.

I do run my holder's as far forward as possible this gives me as much footage to get the boards behind in the event of a failed release. When this happens, I also go to the other side to gain room, I have also loosened my drag with my clicker on to get the board falling back but not so fast to slack the line.

I think board spacing is key too

[Ret.Capt]

Things that are "different". This year at the launch on several occasions I seen boats with snubbers hooked up in front of the dipsy instead of behind and the reel filled with braided line. It got the best of me and I finally had to ask one guy the reason for this, his answer "it works for me". Over the years I have seen many different set-ups for trolling, heck I still use mono on my small boards. I have had many strange looks and one guy finally asked me why I was using downriggers on shallow Lake Erie, then he almost fainted when I told him I also run a stacker on them! I certainly do use downriggers w/stackers running scorpion spoons and some might think I've lost my mind Why do I? Because it puts walleye in the box and it "works for me"!

[Lucky Duck]

Now that I see you are still using down riggers with success Capt, I think I might mount my down riggers on my boat again. I used to use those stackers, they worked back then and they apparently still working now!

[Lucky Duck]

Its kind of like throwing Erie Dearies and other weight forward spinners. They still work very well.