05-13-2017, 02:54 PM
I use church tackle magnum mini s and the walleye boards both are inline and work very well. the magnum minis are amazing on flat water and have almost no resistance when fighting a fish but won't handle much chop or heavy lures. Catching salmon or trout they are no worse than a dodger. The walleye boards will handle big chop or lures but even when released and running inline at the stop they add considerable resistance. The trick is if they don't pop or want to dive due to chop or an aggressive fish point the rod right at them and most of the resistance goes away, of course so does the shock absorption of the rod so there's a trade off. Early in the season, shoreline browns or walleye, or when the boat pressure has them shy boards are hard to beat. Of course a couple weeks ago at starvation some @ss hat drove right over 2 off my port side even while i was standing up waving him off. Unfortunately I was using mono so he probably got off ok, if I could have foreseen the future it would have been 100# braid. I was able to recover the boards and the reels retained enough line to keep fishing.
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