Side Planers...Help

[River_Walleye]

I am thinking about purchasing a set of side planers such as Yellow Birds. I would like to use them in a river (for walleye) that sometimes has quite a strong current. How do they release? Do they slide down the line when the release is tripped? Any suggestions?

[4-given]

Yellow Birds should work well in the current. It might be difficult to detect the bite. Yellow Birds are designed to slide down the line upon release. I don't use the release that comes with them. I use Off-shore releases. Usually the black ones. You might consider the Off-shore boards with the tattle flags.

[IaCraig]

Yellow birds work if you are not trolling real deep running cranks or if your not in too big of waves. I retired mine and use off-shore now.

IaCraig