Trolling boards like Off Shore Tackle's OR-12 have become as much a part of walleye fishing as jigs, rigs or slip bobbers. In actuality, the bobbers and trolling boards have a lot in common. Both act as "bite indicators", telegraphing a fish that's tugging on the business end of your line. A board, however, does even more . It plans off to the side of the boat to help you spread your trolling lines to horizontally cover more water and position the baits away from the boat that might otherwise spook wary walleyes.

For many anglers new to using boards, they can be difficult to "read", especially in the case of a small fish hanging on your lure, or when your bait has picked up weeds or other debris. To remedy this, Off Shore has added yet another break-through innovation to the arsenal of the walleye troller ... the Tattle-Flag. 

Marketed as a kit that can be used to adapt to an existing OR-12 board, the flag becomes a spring-loaded bite indicator that, when a fish hits the lure, drops down from it's normal upright position, letting you know there's work to be done, kind of like ice fishing tip-ups in reverse. The spring tension is easily adjusted to compensate for the size lure your running, so there's no problem with hard-pulling deep diving cranks yanking the flag down on their own. 

This is the ideal board to use when fishing smaller crankbaits, spinner rigs or anytime you're likely to encounter small fish that otherwise would end up as "hangers" going undetected until you reel in to check your lures.

With innovations from Off Shore Tackle like the Tattle flag, board fishing is just going to get better and more fun than ever before. And by finding use for boards in your walleye waters we'd be surprised if you don't start seeing your catch rate skyrocket!