My mini planer board hobby

[BulBob]

Designing little planer boards is a hobby I am hooked on and wanted to share my latest crafts.

Anyhow, I'm testing wings and tails on small custom molded foam planer boards. I had the foam bodies molded in China in 4 sizes. I am drilling the hole and cutting the slot and inserting different shape wings and tails in the slot. I cut the shapes out of a milk jug. The foam bodies I'm testing are 3" long.



This is a close up of P3 pulling a lure larger then itself. The wing kept the attack angle stable at speeds from 0.2 to 2.0 mph. The furl off the keel hits the wing harder the faster you go keeping it stable. Forgive me for struggling to explain how it works, I'm still trying to mechanically rationalize my observations and put them into words!



Here are P3 and P5 planing way out to the side with large lures.



Paul

 

[SuperD]

Those are very cool!

 

[Bduck]

I have to agree, very cool. Are you selling eventually or is it to remain a hobby? 101smily101

 

[oneanddone]

very neat would like to try them.

 

[Kokaholic]

Sweet. I like them, I to would be interested in a couple of those if you decide to market them to us fellow KFF members

 

[clawman]

Bulbob;
What is the status of your boards?

 

[SuperD]

Clawman,
All of BulBob's posts were advertisements for his boards and web links were deleted per our advertising policy. Either try PMing him or a Google search.

 

[clawman]

OK, let me ask differently, what if any boards do you use?

 

[SuperD]

I use 13' painter poles with downrigger release clips at the end. Inline planer boards dragging through the water while fighting a fish wasn't my favorite thing so I devised a way to get the lines out away from the boat and they pop the release clip when a fish hits. They operate like an outrigger.

 

[SuperD]

I found the guy doing some searches. He is selling under the name BulletBobber Enterprises.

 

[froggie]

They look interesting.
Froggie

 

[SuperD]

I bit the "bulletbobber" and picked up a couple to try out. I'll probably put them in the water for a test ride this weekend.