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HeвЂ™s found thatвЂ™s crucial, especially for really big catfish. Royce said a major advantage of planer boards is they also get the bait well away from the boat. вЂњWhen IвЂ™m fishing the right place having more bait in the water is a real advantage. вЂњTo be most effective, the use of planer boards is not a technique to just get more baits in the water itвЂ™s a great technique to specifically fish a target in the most effective manner,вЂќ he said. IвЂ™m always targeting a specific place when catfishing, whether itвЂ™s a creek or river-channel ledge, working the middle of a tributary bed, deep holes, points, humps or any underwater topography target where catfish hold. вЂњThe advantage of using planer boards is theyвЂ™re easy to use and enable me to place my baits on very specific targets. Planer boards enable me to cover more water and deploy more bait, but thatвЂ™s of no advantage without having complete control of where and how theyвЂ™re used. вЂњWhen I started experimenting with boards, they immediately added a new dimension to my trophy catfishing. вЂњItвЂ™s an overused phrase but вЂI wonвЂ™t leave home with them,вЂ™ is a completely accurate description of my dependence on planer boards for big catfish,вЂќ said Royce, who runs Blues Brothers Guide Service (91).

A past owner of the North Carolina state record for blue catfish, Royce has two triple-digit sized catfish to his credit and is now addicted to the use of planer boards. Guide Zakk Royce of Murfreesboro, N.C., said planer boards have become a key component to his highly successful tactic of drift-fishing for outlandish-sized catfish on Lake Gaston.

Planer boards - thin rectangles of plastic or metal and foam, arrayed with a variety of swivels and clips that enable a fishermen to вЂњpullвЂќ a spread of baits at different distances from the boat - are not only popular with striper fishermen throughout the Carolinas theyвЂ™re becoming a вЂњgo-toвЂќ tactic for anglers targeting trophy catfish and other species. While fishermen targeting striped bass have long used planer boards to significantly improve their catches, many anglers have decided that planer boards were too complicated to use properly, requiring acute attention to detail.Д«ut that thought process is changing, and an interesting pattern has developed in the mindset of fishermen: if it works so well on stripers, why not use it on other species? And why not expand the uses on stripers while youвЂ™re at it?

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Planer boards have literally and figuratively expanded fishing horizons for anglers for many years, but until recently, not everyone has taken full advantage of this fishing tool. ItвЂ™s time for all fishermen to board the planer board train.

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