I will probably only get 4 as I normally end up fishing alone everyone always pails out on me so I have given up asking. I come from out west where it's 2 rods per person max. So it seems like a lot of work running 6 boards and two down riggers with one person. Heck stacking two downriggers and stearing a boat in the wind is a lot of work.
What I would really like to do is just run the boards off of a short rod attached to a different rod and fishing lines separately attaching my lure/ bait to the release only.does anyone do that.
I prefer fishing light line fishing . In general I don't use anything larger than 15 lb test mono for stripers.I'll usually pair that with an abugarcia 6500 and a 7 1/2 medium heavy rod . Caught nothing over 40lbs but allot in the 20lb and several in the 30lb class and never had a problem.Just lots of fun.