Yellow bird planers

[Senor Snagger]

Looking for folks with experience. Is a standard yellow bird planer of adequate size for trolling for spring Browns on Lake O or do I need bigger ones? Thanks in advance.

[bailey]

Yes they work but I would recommend church boards or offshore tackle myself . Just replace rear clip with or16 or churches equivalent. I run both and big boards depending on how angry the lake is.

[FleetTracker]

OR16's have come standard on all offshore Inlines for quite a while now... If you do go with offshore Inlines (my preference if big boards aren't an option), Just make sure you have the Red OR16 release on the back. They didn't always come that way.

Edited January 19, 2015 by FleetTracker

[bailey]

FT I've had mine a while so I didn't know that or16 are included now ,good of you to say make sure that the or16 is on rear seems it slipped my mind lol.

[Sk8man]

For the old Yellowbirds I don't even bother with the offshore releases anymore I just changed the split ring to a larger stronger one and hook the swivel snap to that because I only use them for spoons or sticks and the resistance of the boards isn't real great even with a good sized fish and the larger split ring always slides to the front of the bracket rather than staying in the bend when it hooks up with a fish.

[RD9]

Church boards IMO are the way to go. We are big board converts. We use the 12's and 22's. 12's in the spring and 22's for the rest of the year we run up to 300 coppers on the 22's.