New to board & to trolling

[Hoytman86]

If your finances are tight, the only thing I would do different is buy 1 more board and run 2 on 1 side and not run the other side until you have another board to go with it. you will have great difficulty knowing what is going on with just one board per side. With 2 boards on a side you will be able to compare how they are running and know if you have a fish on. I read though you have take flags so maybe it will work.

I'm considering buying another pair of boards. I'm trying to figure out what the difference is between those two items at Cabela's, the descriptions are word for word, with the exception the cheaper one says "a Double-Action flag system" while the more expensive says "two Double-Action flag systems". I just can't figure why they would sell a pair of boards with only one flag. Both say "Port & Starboard Church Walleye boards" and have the same board dimensions as "The Walleye" planer board.

Edit: We will also have 3 pairs of eyes on the boat, so we should be able to keep an eye on the boards to watch them lag if they get hit. The rods off the corners both have clickers, and with the amount of catfishing I've done in rivers I've learned to set the drag so that any click is a fish. I'm less worried about those than I am the boards. The only reason for the financial constraints is that we're buying all of this gear in one go. I think I mentioned in my original post that we've fished walleye on Lake Erie for years casting crawler harnesses, it just seems that trollers wind up bringing in more fish and if we're going to spend the money to go up, we may as well make sure we do everything we can to catch all the fish we can.

Last question I've got is, do we need to buy spare clips for the boards? If so, is it due to them breaking or do they just wear out after continued use? Which do most people prefer, and is the brand & model of board the determining factor to which clips to use?