I was out trolling tonight and I could not keep my planer board constantly in the water. The board kept popping out of the water when the rod loaded up. It would go from nose up attitude, level out, then pop out of the water and start all over again. I had it on a 8.5' medium action rod pulling a fat rap. Speed was 2-2.5 I tried raising the rod tip higher but it did not help. I have the yellow bird boards, the smaller ones. Do I need to upgrade to the Big Birds? It worked fine the other day with a different crankbait which was also a deeper diving high drag bait.
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I went ahead and watched some of the MLF coverage. Wheeler didn’t make the cut but the bigger story was the Poche/Avera fallout.
Kinda funny listening to both sides of the story and putting together the scenario, reading between the lines.
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I was out trolling tonight and I could not keep my planer board constantly in the water. The board kept popping out of the water when the rod loaded up. It would go from nose up attitude, level out, then pop out of the water and start all over again. I had it on a 8.5' medium action rod pulling a fat rap. Speed was 2-2.5 I tried raising the rod tip higher but it did not help. I have the yellow bird boards, the smaller ones. Do I need to upgrade to the Big Birds? It worked fine the other day with a different crankbait which was also a deeper diving high drag bait.
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