How Do You Use Side Planers?

[Kent]

I have used planer boards for about two years and find that they can really help at times, but if I can catch fish without them, I will definitely leave them stored away. One nice way to use them at Willard is to troll with your boat a safe distance from the shore, and let out enough line to put the planer board close to the dike.

One challenging opportunity that no one has yet talked about with planer boards is how, from time to time, they will dive on you, while you are trying to retrieve them. They will pull harder than most of the fish that you catch when a planer board gets turned on its side and dives for the bottom.
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