New to board & to trolling

[wakina]

My program is trutrips 40's with church inlines.........no problem pulling them.

Welcome aboard Hoytman86:

Exactly Eyezcrazy, and at spoon speeds, I also run certain harnesses in the same spread with the spoons. I have ran the hatchet blades as high as 2.5 GPS with no apparent problems. I run mostly T-T 40's behind the church TX-22 boards and if I need a couple of more boards I run my Church walleye boards in the same spread, I have encountered no problems with either. I also have a set of the TX-44 boards but they pull way to hard for my liking so they set most of the time. I have been running braid for the last 9 or 10 years and have had little if any trouble with it.

"WARNING" Braid is dangerous if it becomes snagged on the bottom and will cut you to the bone if taken into an unprotected hand to try and free it. It could even cut a finger off if it was to get into the joint area under this type of circumstance.

The main reason that I have lost fish is because of Eyes being pulled to the top by a jet and then surfing and flopping around on the surface with the water entering their open mouth putting extra weight on the hook up point. If that happens I stop reeling and keeping pressure on the fish lower the rod tip as low as I can get it to the water to pull the Jet and fish back under the surface, most fish keep their mouth closed under the conditions being retrieved creates. Sometimes this is caused by horsing the fish back to the boat so a slow steady retrieve is better than a speed demon landing attempt. Any fish that is solidly hooked will stay that way unless the fisherman does something wrong. A lot of the lightly hooked fish get off by being horsed in and the hook pulls out. Once mono has stretched to its max (planer board wt. and water resistance, fish weight and water resistance, diver or inline wt. plus water resistance, it is no different than braid with the exception that if a fish dashes toward the boat for an instant the mono will take up some of the slack that would be created, in braid there would be no elastic effect to compensate for this slack. That is the reason to keep a tight line on the fish with at least some bend in the rod so the rod can absorb some of the boat ward surges a hooked fish take.