Hillbilly planer mast

[agelesssone]

OK, here is my hillbilly planer mast for side planer boards.

100 ft each side para cord

Homemade releases. To buy the releases commercially costs $8.00 each. Mine cost about $1.25-$1.30 ea.

Borrowed a set of homemade side planers from aquaholic. Gonna hit Priest with Harry on Wednesday to see how everything works. I doubt we'll do as well as aero and I on Tims Ford Saturday. Therr seems to be a lot more stripers and hybrids in Tims Ford.

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[TNBronzeback]

Gonna be a great setup once you get it all figured man! The clips/releases are vital to the whole system! Looking forward to seeing your report!
Ive made my own home made downriggers before. Made em for about $25 each instead of canons $80 cheapest one.
Outrigging and boards work for everything too....walleyes, crappie....anything that swims.

[agelesssone]

80% of the fish we caught Saturday afternoon came on the rods that were attached to the side planers. We had two fish on the downriggers.

[Travis C.]

Cool Merv, can't wait to hear how it works.

[TNtroller]

Very thoughtful and inventive. Will the binder clips not nick the line?? Some of those binders can put a hurt on a finger. GL on the test run.

[Saltwaterwalt]

TN, looks like he's got some foam rubber stuffed in those binders. Great idea!

[Reel Tune]

Very ingenious with the planer board clips. I have some planer board that were made from styrofoam, a street sign, all thread, and clips. They are really a neat setup, if you would like to check them out.

[agelesssone]

Jeremy, how big are the planer boards?

The set I borrowed and tried today didn't work at any speed over 1.5 mph. So, I'm looking at some Riviera's online and on Ebay. That is what aero uses and they run great at 2.6 mph which is about as slow as my boat runs using the gas motor.

And the clips wouldn't hold the braid so I tied a rubber band around the braid, and stuck the band in the clip. Worked like a charm.

And good eye Walt, there is heavy foam rubber super glued inside the clips. No nicks on the line and good holding power.

[bfish]

Agelessone,

My Riveria work fine up to 2.2 or so (I have not tested them faster but I am sure they will be fine).

I think my Superski get a little wider at speeds around 1.5 but around 2.0 both are equally wide from the boat.

[agelesssone]

We've had aero's up to 2.8 and they run fine.

He bought some new planers called Big Jon Otter Boats. I wasn't too impressed with them. They seemed to wallow quite abit, first one side then the other. Which may be a good thing because as one side wallows, the baits would drop down then when the other side wallowed, the down side would surge up. Maybe the up and down action triggered strikes, I don't know. We wound up getting about 16-20 hits, breaking off two and landing12.

[Reel Tune]

Jeremy, how big are the planer boards?


Without physically measuring them or looking at them they seem to be around 8" long X 3.5" tall X 1/2" to 3/4" wide.

I don't know what kind of speeds I can successfully troll with it, because I only troll about 1.5-2 mph max. I've pulled baits up to around 12", the fish I target don't like to work for their food.

[agelesssone]

Without physically measuring them or looking at them they seem to be around 8" long X 3.5" tall X 1/2" to 3/4" wide.

I don't know what kind of speeds I can successfully troll with it, because I only troll about 1.5-2 mph max. I've pulled baits up to around 12", the fish I target don't like to work for their food.

OK, with those dimensions, those are individual small planer boards. I have six of those.

I'm looking for the big side planers that I can run three to four lines out the side on. Each line would have 4+ounces of weights plus the drag of the line and lures. It takes a pretty good sized board to hold up and track well under that kind of pull.

[Reel Tune]

Wow, I have nothing like that. Sounds like something saltwater guys would use.

[agelesssone]

They are used on the Great Lakes for salmon, coho, walleye, etc. They work great for hybrids and stripers too, as aero can attest cause he is the one that taught me that technique.

I just got a pair off of Ebay and they will be here next week. I'll post photos of them being used on the boat next weekend sometimes.