little board question

[ebijack]

Depends on what your running. With cranks and jets you can free spool but with any diving/weighted system you can really run into trouble. Usually I will take the outside board rod, go to the back corner of the boat and raise the rod as high as I can. this slowly gets the out side or really any board to fall back out of formation. Once there is enough room to clear the other lines ( reason for the out side to be the highest in the water column) point the rod at the opposite corner of the boat ( other boards) and real like crazy. If required, adjust the steering of the boat to help. Or, if you run your boards so the front clip releases, just pop the rod butt, the clip releases and the board goes behind the boat automatically. Then to reset your line, run it out the back of the boat far enough so you can swing it right back into where it was in formation. I can run 5 Offshores/side doing this method. With the Church boards for me they run further back at an angle and I have more trouble trying to do what I stated above. All just a learning curve. Hope that makes sense.

[Bggeary]

Depends on what your running. With cranks and jets you can free spool but with any diving/weighted system you can really run into trouble. Usually I will take the outside board rod, go to the back corner of the boat and raise the rod as high as I can. this slowly gets the out side or really any board to fall back out of formation. Once there is enough room to clear the other lines ( reason for the out side to be the highest in the water column) point the rod at the opposite corner of the boat ( other boards) and real like crazy. If required, adjust the steering of the boat to help. Or, if you run your boards so the front clip releases, just pop the rod butt, the clip releases and the board goes behind the boat automatically. Then to reset your line, run it out the back of the boat far enough so you can swing it right back into where it was in formation. I can run 5 Offshores/side doing this method. With the Church boards for me they run further back at an angle and I have more trouble trying to do what I stated above. All just a learning curve. Hope that makes sense.

That is my basic plan of action, only I usually move the inside board out, move it up a rod holder and reset the (was outside board) to the inside.

[ebijack]

That is my basic plan of action, only I usually move the inside board out, move it up a rod holder and reset the (was outside board) to the inside.

For me, I don't move boards out futher in the spread as I try to keep the highest/shallowest lines right where they are. Also If I start to get fish on closer in rods, means I can bring all my boards in closer. Which at times I can run snap weights right off the side instead of using as many boards.

[wakina]

Depends on what your running. With cranks and jets you can free spool but with any diving/weighted system you can really run into trouble. Usually I will take the outside board rod, go to the back corner of the boat and raise the rod as high as I can. this slowly gets the out side or really any board to fall back out of formation. Once there is enough room to clear the other lines ( reason for the out side to be the highest in the water column) point the rod at the opposite corner of the boat ( other boards) and real like crazy. If required, adjust the steering of the boat to help. Or, if you run your boards so the front clip releases, just pop the rod butt, the clip releases and the board goes behind the boat automatically. Then to reset your line, run it out the back of the boat far enough so you can swing it right back into where it was in formation. I can run 5 Offshores/side doing this method. With the Church boards for me they run further back at an angle and I have more trouble trying to do what I stated above. All just a learning curve. Hope that makes sense.

LOL!!! That sure got away from me didn't it. I left out the most important part. ebijack, I am sure glad you mentioned the fact that it works best if you are not running inlines or tadpoles or some other type of weighted system.

[ebijack]

You don't let many get by you, and I was awake enough and enough coffee.