Well my 2 Emu chasin bros to the North do have room for knowledge about plugging. I have some intricate posts about it on our Ifish BB (more on the old one) but I'm too lazy to re-type them. I will say that for medium to deeper slots I prefer the rodtips low to the water, proper line length so as to have the plugs near bottom but NOT dredging it, and the side rods spread wide in larger river wide holding water. However, I do hold the rodtips higher for the shallower water at upper end entry and for the tailouts because I only want to reel in a little line for clearish shallow water so as not to spook the fish with the boat commotion; thus the rodtip raise for those places. The exception is when the water current & color are up this makes the plugs more prone to popping to the surface, so I lower the tip even in shallower water when that occurs. As for lateral angle on the side rods I like the holder postion one notch downriver of 45 deg. straight out, to better facilitate setting the hook. On the back rod, don't lower it so much that it's straight parallel with the line; turn it or raise it just a little. - Steve Hanson

[This message has been edited by Reel Truth (edited 06-28-2000).]