Walleye S E of Kelly's

[TROPHYTIME]

Need your boards to weigh more to pull harder on main line or add weight to bottom of them. I went to wooden boards and that took care of the problem. You can go online and get prints on how to make your own. That should help you.

[badboards]

Makes sense. These boards are older the brand name is Rivera. The have hinges to open and close. They are plastic with foam core. I'm wondering if I had them backwards. I had the Pointed edge going forward but the white foam faced out and yellow plastic faced in. That to me seemed weird.

[cooleyfarms]

possibly upside down?

[Capt Juls]

Makes sense. These boards are older the brand name is Rivera. The have hinges to open and close. They are plastic with foam core. I'm wondering if I had them backwards. I had the Pointed edge going forward but the white foam faced out and yellow plastic faced in. That to me seemed weird.

That would be the correct position. The "pointy end" would be beveled, to make the board go out away from the boat....just like the little inline boards.

Sounds like they were just too light for the job. The mainline should be relatively tight, so the fish can be detected by watching the rod tips. Most charters I've been on, that run big boards, didn't have rubber bands breaking most of the time, either.

[ReelAction II]

Makes sense. These boards are older the brand name is Rivera. The have hinges to open and close. They are plastic with foam core. I'm wondering if I had them backwards. I had the Pointed edge going forward but the white foam faced out and yellow plastic faced in. That to me seemed weird.

replace the foam core with wood

[badboards]

There is a thought. I might give that a try. Probably can glue them in. Have you done this before. What kind of wood. Probably treated cedar would be good.

[penalty box]

make your big boards out of Azek

[itsbob]

Sorry but I couldn't help myself. Another way for board to pull harder than modifying with added weight, is the position or location the line is attached to the board.
How many lines max do you intend to run off those boards on each side? The charters use big boards because they use 4 to 6 lines off each board. If you are using 3 or less lines off each side, you would be best to use inline boards.
The absolute best setup to run cranks is with mono off inline boards.Most all agree to that.Good luck.