BY MARK ROMANACK One of the reasons the Off Shore Tackle OR12 Side Planer, OR38 Mini Board and OR37 SST Pro Mag dominate in market sales, is these boards are versatile and can be fished with a host of different rigging combinations. For sure “one size fits all” is a phrase you won’t hear at Off Shore Tackle....
BY EAST SIDE GUIDE SERVICE LLC The Tadpole Diver is widely used among walleye anglers. This simple tipshows how to rig the Tadpole for targeting off shore steelhead during thesummer months. The Off Shore Tackle OR36 Series #1 Tadpole is something I’ve been using a lot to successfully target steelhead in the upper water column. For all the...
BY COREY HANSON The line trick is an easy way to rig in-line boards so that the board can betripped for switching out lures or when a fish is hooked. A lot of people have questions when they are looking to get into trolling with boards. There are many options and ways to run boards, but for the...
Mark Romanack is an outdoor writer, trolling authority, the executive producer of the Fishing 411 TV series and the founder of the Precision Trolling Data phone apps. Off Shore Tackle LLC has sponsored Mark since the late 1980’s when he broke into the fishing business as an outdoor writer and tournament professional. Over the years Mark has been...
BY MARK ROMANACK Hands down, the most popular way of getting crankbaits to depth has become the 50+2 Data produced by the Precision Trolling Data phone app. If your goal is to take a crankbait and get it to maximum depth while knowing exactly where in the water column the lure is running, the 50+2 Data is your...
BY MARK ROMANACK One of the reasons that the Off Shore Tackle line up of in-line planer boards are so popular is they are versatile and can be rigged a number of different ways for different fishing styles, line types or for targeting a wealth of different species. In recent years there has been a growing debate as...
BY CHAD BURNS Back when I was still in the planning stages of starting my charter business, Burnsies Guide Service, my number one priority was to make sure my clients experienced the best fishing excursion I could offer to them. Many different facets of the ideal day on the water came in to play. A huge part...
BY MARK ROMANACK It’s safe to say that Off Shore Snap Weights (the combination of an OR20 series weight attached via a split ring to an OR16 clip) were a game changer when they were first introduced in the early 1990’s. At the time, the only other in-line weights on the market were designed to be attached near...
BY CAPTAIN DAVE BOON, COPPER BLUES FISHING Captain Dave Boon uses the OR37 SST Pro Mag for much of his big water charter fishing. On any given day Captain Dave is tasked with catching walleye, lake trout, coho, brown trout and Atlantic salmon. He finds that the SST Pro Mag is ideal for the multi-species angler. Mid-summer...
BY MARK ROMANACK Truth be told, there are probably as many ways to store in-line planer boards in and out of a fishing boat as there are people who use in-line boards. Over the years I’ve seen a lot of creative and useful storage tricks that help keep your boards not only within arm’s reach, but in perfect...
