04-23-2015, 01:51 PM
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[size 4][font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000]I’ve tried both Church and Off Shore. I prefer Church but I know more guys prefer Off Shore. If you decide to go with Church, I would recommend the TX-22 model. When you get them new, you have to assemble them to be either a right hand runner or a left hand runner. Once you have used them, you will quickly label them "right" or "left" to eliminate confusion. Those TX22s are designed to come off the clip and slide all the way back to the lure and to the fish once a fish hits. I hate that! So I fish them a little different than how they are designed to be used. I use them in such a way that they don’t unclip and don’t slide back. Then when a fish gets hooked, and your reel is screaming, you have to reel in the board, remove the board from the line, and then finish reeling in the fish.[/#800000][/font][/size]
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[size 4][font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000]To keep the planer board from coming off or from sliding down the line, I run the line through the front pincher and then wrap it around under the bottom lip and between the pincher again. In fact, if you are using slippery braided line, wrapping the line is what keeps it from slipping.[/#800000][/font][/size]
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[size 4][font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000]I have a set of the TX-12 and TX-6 … don’t like either ofthem as much as the 22s. My brother, on the other hand, loves his TX-12s. If the water is glassy or fairly calm, the 12s or even 6s will do. But if there is any chop or ripples at all, you'll wish you had the 22s.[/#800000][/font][/size]
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[size 4][font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000]I know that is probably more info than you wanted but somebody else may have benefited from my babbling. [/#800000][/font][/size]
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[size 4][font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000]And, as for building your own, I always say, “why buy it fo r$10 when you can build it for $100”.[/#800000][/font][/size]
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000][size 4]My Church TX-22 boards have taken a good 10 years of beating and still work great. They are the ones you seen on the Adam Eakle show.[/size][/#800000][/font]
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[size 4][font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000]I’ve tried both Church and Off Shore. I prefer Church but I know more guys prefer Off Shore. If you decide to go with Church, I would recommend the TX-22 model. When you get them new, you have to assemble them to be either a right hand runner or a left hand runner. Once you have used them, you will quickly label them "right" or "left" to eliminate confusion. Those TX22s are designed to come off the clip and slide all the way back to the lure and to the fish once a fish hits. I hate that! So I fish them a little different than how they are designed to be used. I use them in such a way that they don’t unclip and don’t slide back. Then when a fish gets hooked, and your reel is screaming, you have to reel in the board, remove the board from the line, and then finish reeling in the fish.[/#800000][/font][/size]
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[size 4][font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000]To keep the planer board from coming off or from sliding down the line, I run the line through the front pincher and then wrap it around under the bottom lip and between the pincher again. In fact, if you are using slippery braided line, wrapping the line is what keeps it from slipping.[/#800000][/font][/size]
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[size 4][font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000]I have a set of the TX-12 and TX-6 … don’t like either ofthem as much as the 22s. My brother, on the other hand, loves his TX-12s. If the water is glassy or fairly calm, the 12s or even 6s will do. But if there is any chop or ripples at all, you'll wish you had the 22s.[/#800000][/font][/size]
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[size 4][font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000]I know that is probably more info than you wanted but somebody else may have benefited from my babbling. [/#800000][/font][/size]
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[size 4][font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000]And, as for building your own, I always say, “why buy it fo r$10 when you can build it for $100”.[/#800000][/font][/size]
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][#800000][size 4]My Church TX-22 boards have taken a good 10 years of beating and still work great. They are the ones you seen on the Adam Eakle show.[/size][/#800000][/font]
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