Ive been fishing landlocked stripers here on beaver lake in N/W Ar:fishin: since 94. Usally live baiting shad on ballons and planiers , Fish are coming to top now so not wanting to use weights. Wind catches ballons. See guys freelining up to 6 rods or more straight out the back a lot. Than planers out the side . Anybody have any info on this. Do you stager them in like longest out about 150ft, than125ft, 100 and so on. Are you forced to just turn twords longest and cant turn boat in the other direction without crossing up. Also can you make sharp turns.
Doing this slowing draging bait with troll moter. Thanks for any help

Fishin out there is a lot different than here. Amazingly one of the spots on my short list to fish before I croak is Beaver Lake in your state.....Remember seein a fishin show few years back where they were cathcin 30# fish like they were schoolies....in fresh water.....was amazing.......my old man couldn't get over it.

Got to work hard to pull fish here now. Nov - Dec is my best for top. Gulls come in for winter to help. Last year they gave us the biggest stocking in 8 years & also put a 20" mimimum length to keep. Still have a few 30 to 50 lb fish. Im pulling a lot 12-14 with a few 20-30lb. Record fish was caught by one of my neighbors, 64lbs but was caught on the white river where they arent even stocked, came over dam when they opened flood gates, got fat on trout.

beaver lake pics if they go thru this time.

beaver lake pics if they go thru this time.


They didn't go through the first time as we wait for people to have more than a few posts before posting links so they don't :spam: the boards.

So let m e get this straight, you start with a post looking on how to do something and then two posts later you are spamming your guide service? I just want to make sure I understand this correctly...

Victor, Oh Victor, whee ARE you :rotf2: ?

Not spaming nothing, just thought guy might want to see more pics & reports YA had a spot to show links so just thru in .SORRY , first time I have ever been acused of spaming. Felt kinda mad at first, but more stupid now. Was really looking for help on freelining and came across your forum. Im learning this computer as I go along. Like I just learned what is considered spam. Sorry Again. Good luck and take a kid fishing.

Wow.. An innocent question about trolling that came across as an innocent act of trolling :hihi:
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thanks john for understanding my mistake. Still looking for info on freelining. Guys here wont talk about it. Cant even find info on google search. Hoping I dont have to cross up a bunch of lines to learn. Heres a little tip on shad that I just started doing 3 weeks ago. First off stress is started as soon as you net them. We net our bait out of different lakes here, than transport home to yard tanks 300 to 500 gals. For years I would loose 50% in the first week, rest harden up.Stay good for weeks. Heres my new recipe when netting for a 30 gal tank ------ 1&1/2 cups rock salt.
1/2 oz of ultimate or 1 teaspoon bait saver water treatment.
1 teaspoon of MS-222. this stuff is great, but not cheap. (can do a google search on ) Kind off gets them drunk to calm down. If not putting in a yard tank Start duluting out with water changes after a hr or 2. Theirs another product like it but I never could find. Well heres how it went.
3 weeks ago netted 84 5-6" shad. brought home, put in yard tank, only lost 2 since.
8 days ago thought I over did it since you should not allow but 1 shad per gal when warm, Pushing it at 2 per gal when cooler. I brought home 138 5-6" gizard & threadfins in 2 30 gal tanks. thought I would have a bunch of red noses when I got home, but all worked out well . Hav'nt lost a one yet. Water temp was 59. Dont know if you guys hold shad or not, but my 300 gal yard tank is a big plastic honey barrel that drains into a 55 gal filter barrel with a 5 gal filter bucket inside filled with charcoal & poli fill with holes in bottom. Than a 1200 gph pump taking water back to main tank with spray bar. All PVC. Barrels are insulated. Total cost to put together was less than $200. Dont use MS-222 in yard tank. & only 1/2 the salt you use on boat tank.