Thread: Spider rigging from the back

Always best to fish two up front, if you can. I put guys in the back if I have more than two. Guys up front generally get most of the bites, but still catch a bunch in back. For the record....my guys in the back of the boat aren't fishing directly out back, but off either side.

My partners, that fish in my boat, fish off the sides and fan their rods out to cover as wide an area as possible.

Example : my fishing buddy, Carl -



And I've been in the same position in other buddy's boats. And while the back seat angler may not get first crack at the fish, they do catch their share. And that can sometimes be because they're alerted to the fact of approaching those fish, by the angler in front catching some.

... cp

I fished the back for years before we changed boats. Not near as much happened in the back as there was in the front. I did the best basically long lining with floats and with a couple really long rods to reach out side of the front poles. I would put my wife up front with 6 or 8 poles and chauffeur her around the lake from the back of the boat with the ipilot. I got to see her catch a whole lot of really nice fish. Of course, from the back, I could sometimes see the bite faster than she would. It was kinda like playing solitaire with someone looking over your shoulder. She hated me telling her she was getting bit From time to time, I would need to take a trip by myself to get my spider rigging fix.

You can long line out of the back which is basically casting your line out the back and trolling around. You need to have a way to work your trolling motor however.

I fished that way years ago and 3 guys in a 14' flatbottom boat with 6 poles each looks like a porcupine. Atleast that is what the game warden said. We had poles out front back and both sides !

I was thinking about using floats off the back while rigging off the front. Put a lil distance between the boat and the bait. Would work fishing shallow. Don't know if it would work well if fishing deeper than 8ft. That's a lot of line from bait to bobber. I guess you could just lower the rig into the water and slowly let line out til you get to the distance you like.

My wife and I fish 12 -10' poles. I fish 6 up front and my wife fishes 6 - 3 on one side and 3 on the other right beside of her seat in the back of our tracker pro 16 boat. She has caught some of the biggest crappie that was caught. I think it is because when the first set of minnows come through the fish are more ready to bite the second set that passes over.

That's what I was thinking. The only thing is, Lake Lanier is very clear most of the time. Could use some distance away from the boat in the back. Floats would work since I'm moving so slow. The new Thiel floats that are marked for a specific weight work well and they make them for 1/2oz which I normally use to rig with.