Thank you so much for the fast response. Yeah guess you have a good reason for the way you do it..your way seems like it would work better for my kids because the moment i trip the board all i do it yell to keep rod tip high and then the board gets submerged and turns into a mess with kids saying its hard to reel in... With adults the tripping method works great but kids are a different story..i may try your method next time with the kids and see if they like it and then i can do my normal way i do it when its just me and the wife