Running a flasher for big pine?

[bessiedog]

Just wondering if anyone’s done it.... like one does for salmon....

In mid summer when they are in big water areas...

Just thinking about doing it on a certain lake....

[smith88]

Interesting idea. I think you would have to use downriggers as the flashers tend to come to surface unless they are held down.

[EZM]

Give it a whirl ............ as long as you know the lake well enough not to come into shallows or humps and loose your gear ..... one break off can be pretty expensive.

I have also used planner boards, made myself, on a mast, for some excellent success out here ............ I got some strange looks here in Alberta (and on this sask lake) but I also brought in fish to the cleaning shack too ....:)

Or used portable planner boards that just snap onto your line to get a spread.

And even downriggers on lakes where you normally don't see them ....

................ why not?

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[stob]

Just run a Gibbs 4-8oz slide on sinker 1 or 2 pulls above the flasher...at the end of the flasher I have a large hook and then I run a flash spoon or the largest William's spoon you can get 2-3 pulls behind the flasher...I crimp a large barrel swivel to the flasher hook to attach the line to spoon part...I have caught pike, brown trout, walleye this way...pike and brown trout on the flasher hook too but no walleye on the flasher and no double headers yet...and I have not had a lake trout either on this rig