Thread: Neely Henry Report

Good report. I have not been in 2 months, and am ready to go. Just can't get over this back surgery.

Thanks for the report...I really like fishing Neely Henry.

Roger A, when spider rigging do you put the weight all the way on the bottom of your rig and then run a minnow above that or do you run your minnow off of a leader off of the weight? Or are you running jigs? Do you use floats when you do this? I have very little spidder rigging experience compared to long line trolling so I'd like to try this technique. Thanks.

We normally use the Capps & Coleman type rigs, which I tie myself, with the weight in the middle. When fishing deep, 15 feet or more, we will change to the weight on the bottom with 2 hooks tied off line above weight. We have caught crappie as deep as 32 feet.Only use floats when fishing very shallow which is almost never. We use a jig on bottom hook sometimes but have to experiment and see what the fish want on that day. Since we compete in tournaments I cannot tell all my little secrets but that is the basics. We use the depth finder to find creek and river channel ledges and watch for cover along those and concentrate on putting our baits near the cover whenever possible. We get hung up a LOT and loose a lot of tackle but we catch a lot of fish most times doing this. Wind and boat traffic creating waves is our worst enemy when trying to fish this way. PM me if you have any more questions and I will try to help you.

Thanks for the help RogerA!! I can use all the help I can get to figure our another new method to pursue my favorite target.

Thanks for the report. Mr Roger, would you mind telling me what thickness line you use when tying your Capps Coleman rigs? I am getting geared up to start spider rigging just a couple of poles at a time from my kayak.

I use 10 pound main line in a Hi Viz so my old eyes can see it better. For the rigs I tie them with 6 pound line so when you hang up it should break before the main line would. I keep several extra rigs pre tied with me so I can change out quickly when I break something off. I also tie a snap swivel on the end of my main line to make change outs quicker. On these rigs we have landed many big fish including stripe up to 18 pounds and bass up to 5 pounds and cats up to over 25 pounds. We keep our drags set real loose and just let them run and tire out.

Can I PM for some of those secrets?