Please elaborate..........

[wakina]

It is of my opinion that to run the big boards in an efficient manner you need at least 3 people. 1 person must be dedicated to boat handling when going into a head wind unless you have an auto pilot. Small boards can be brought in and then you can make a run back to your starting position and start over without trolling into the wind unless it is absolutely a necessity. Sure you can bring in the big boards and do the same thing but with a much greater effort.

I can run 4 small boards per side if needed and they don't require the space to store that big boards do. I am talking boats that have a limited amount of storage space available and not the big 27 ft.or larger boats with 10 ft. beams. To me 4 people & 8 lines would be about max to run small boards. But with the newer stern planers by Church Tackle you could run an additional 2 lines similar to flat lines but further back off the back corners making a total of 10 lines managable, that is if you have room for 4 people plus the driver comfortably, but once again boat size limits you to the number of people and lines.

So for me it is small boards everywhere with either jet 40s or the newer tru-trip 40s. I have never had a problem with them behind the small boards and they have worked just fine. Dipseys are out when I fish over the reefs as they like to sink on the inside when making turns allowing them to contact and snag in the rocks so to keep equipment to a minimum I have eliminated dipseys from my boat. Inline wts are also effective but like dipseys can and do sink when slowing down or making turns allowing them to contact and snag the bottom if the leads are greater than the water depth, so for me it is the floating divers, with the preference going to the tru-trip 40s. But I would add that I only fish in the western basin.