FBD

Gonna have to show my ignorance and ask where that is…

I prefer a stiff wind in my 14’. Trolling with the wind is the poor man’s autopilot. I run all my rods on one side of the boat if possible - port as that’s the side I’m facing - to make them easier to watch and to leave the other side open to play/land fish, if they play nice however larger kings and steel sometimes disregard my best inputs to convince them where they should go.

Streams are blown out around me in Holland. Lake Mac is chocolate milk. Had lunch, at the launch I usually use, on Monday and the water was up 6” from two weeks ago but still a foot plus down from last fall. Like dry ground where the boat is usually floating off the trailer.

I know deep diving stick baits can overpower small divers. I would think the ring can only help…

Or your crew doesn’t put the line behind the pin. Or the split ring the release is on opens up. Or the screw eyes works out of the board…

I’ve been having problems with picking up green slime while trolling near the bottom or in shallow. That can bugger up the best of swivels.

I ran ten rods out of a 14’ with an eight and seven year old in the crew. Second fish was a 8# brown. That got interesting but the youngest crew landed it.

Man remember when it was two rods each? Rigger and planer board per side or two boards per side? Choices…

I have caught them off most any pier and in the surf, but fishing very small spawn bags. Ripping into them while they are trying to spawn seems counter productive to a fish with troubled populations, not to mention the crowd this draws leans towards chaos. I’d just assume they close the season down in November like we do for spawning walleye and pike in the spring. I have tried to jig them around the Bubbler in Port Sheldon with limited and mostly lake trout success.

Kinda cool to be in an urban area but still on a beautiful river…