The color is called Coconut Candy when it is a Bandit. Reef Runners call it Pink Lemonade. When you are trying to release a board, do not hold the rod high but rather keep it parallel with the water, then get the line tight and holding rod with one hand slap the handle below the hand holding the rod. Also you may want to edit the unhooking the first fish as it was hooked outside the mouth and not legal to keep.
Tattle flags are really only needed during the crawler bite when we have junk fish and weeds to worry about. This time of the year, I don’t even worry about them. Set your drag light and leave the clickers on. That way you will hear when a fish hits. If you are by yourself (not recommended for safety reasons, BTW) when you get a fish and you letting another line out, either go ahead and let it out enough to get the board on and out of the way, or reel it in fast and then deal with your fish. It will be fine if your drag is light.
Just a suggestion if you use your trolling motor at the front as long as you have ipilot you can use it to steer the boat and your kicker motor to set your speed it makes it really easy for trolling. I do the same thing on my 18.6ft Princecraft and it amazing. That way everyone in the boat can fish and net and you don’t have to have someone to drive the boat.
I see you use bigger reels like I have. Curious if you spool the whole thing with ten pound or just put like 100 yards over your salmon line? I was thinking about doing the latter, so just wondering. Thanks. Great video.
THANKS for the video! This time of year, it sure helps to get the juices flowing! Take Care. Play safe. Oh ya,,,, Next time you get that single pole HOG on,,,, specially with 10# line, kill that motor & go into a drift. Then, that fish won't get so spooky at the boat. ;>)
The way u put the boards....do it the opposite way put the line thru the middle of the board gov it slack and a loop to the one at the end with the tattle
How you can switch from right hand reels to left hand reels and not get screwed up is beyond me. I’m sooo right dominant you could chop my left hand off and I could probably still tie my shoes. 😛 PS How deep are those baits running and how deep is the water ?
40fow, running the bandits 100-120 foot back and I honestly have zero problem switching back and forth. For spinning rods it’s 100% LH reel but not for these.
@leakyjonboatco.7419 I want to get an older boat to fix up. Don't know much about fresh water boats though.. is there a particular reason why you chose that boat? If you could pick any brand and model which would be your #1 choice?
I traded an old Jon boat for it. But it has a good hull design for how small it is. I would choose a start craft deep v like this but probably the 180 or 210.
@@leakyjonboatco.7419 Nice - so fish all over the water column then not just on bottom (not an Erie veteran - usually just fishing bottom for me) - 100-120' back from the board at 1.3-1.5 how deep would you say those bandits get down approx? Awesome to be boat fishing in March!!!
@@leakyjonboatco.7419 In the 80tys I was a kid my dad and I would buy fresh walleye right off a small commercial fishing boat in Dunkirk it was ww2 steel bathtub-looking thing with about 30 layers of paint the fish were huge and they were delicious
You know there are advisories on not to eat walleye over 24” right? I mean do what you want but there are plenty of “ eater “ size walleyes in Lake Erie.
I’m not familiar with such advisories, Erie has a really good fishery and the limit of fish and laws that make us throw anything back in under 15” will ensure that for the future.
