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Originally Posted by 5th Tuition
Look at you  Have you already forgotten what it's like to run a small boat 
5th |
Bite me ...
For whatever reason, the two that we have to watch getting tangled is when a dink hits the #3 while in a tight turn and it comes up into the #2 on the same side. Side-to-side tangle are fairly rare (luckily) but you are right - a 16' beam helps
In all seriousness, I agree - we over think this to the point of actually do more harm than good.
Today we had a 5 hour trip - within 10 minutes of having lines in, we had 3 macs on at once by 83A. Stayed in the area and never had another touch for 2 hours. Moved south, didn't see anything worth fishing on - moved back north and saw a huge bird pile. Put the junk back in and was instantly covered up in trophy 8-9" bluefish! Those 18 foot leaders very quickly turned into a $20 wad of fluorocarbon trash.
Basically retied everything - moved away from the birds and hung another two macs which shook off halfway to the boat.
Oh - And to top it off, the heavy rod with the #3 planer on it along with a new 330 decided to launch itself out of the deep rod holder.
Some days you are the windshield and some days you are the bug. At least I think the party had fun judging by the fact they filled a 55 gallon trash can with empties in 5 hours
