It looks like the site in general needs to be updated . The staff profile is from 2013 and according to the site profile we are heading into season 13

Yes, your line to your desired depth of your lure. Then planer board. And yes the reason for a board is to move your lure out of the noise shadow and wake of your boat.

John wrote:

So I’ve just started to dabble in the planer board world with line counters. I absolutely love it. To be sure I have this understood, do I need to let out line to reach the desired depth before clipping the board on? Does the board act more or less as a pendallum and it’s main purpose after it’s been clipped on is to move the bait away from the Boat? Thanks in advance.

John wrote:

So I’ve just started to dabble in the planer board world with line counters. I absolutely love it. To be sure I have this understood, do I need to let out line to reach the desired depth before clipping the board on? Does the board act more or less as a pendallum and it’s main purpose after it’s been clipped on is to move the bait away from the Boat? Thanks in advance.

MNdrifter wrote:

I caught 4 walleyes this Sunday in 2-4’ of water between 1-4 pm when it was high skies, 97 degrees pitching beetle spins while fishing for crappies. This is the third or fourth time I can remember catching multiple <strong class=”ido-tag-strong”>walleyes on beetle spins. Just was wondering if any of you guys have caught <em class=”ido-tag-em”>walleyes on them? If there’s any pattern when using them to intentionally target walleyes is practical. I was thinking this time of the year buzzing them over the tops of newly emerging weeds might produce. It maybe the new hot bait for walleyes? After the third one in 200 yards of shoreline I gave up the crappies and threw on a swim bait (storm wildeye swim shad) and casted that over the weed tops, but that didn’t produce anything, went back to the beetle spin and banged another one. Just trying to piece this puzzle together in my head. I’d like to hear if anybody else has had similar stories, what were the conditions.
Thanks, Drifter.