Thread: Fishing with Stick-man

Many years ago(80's?), Northeastern saltwater fishermen initiated the multi-bait umbrella rig for Stripers/bluefish. They attached multiple plastic shad on jigheads with the center "trailing" bait being larger than the smaller shad it "targeted". Commonly used in the Trophy Spring striper season(cows up to 60 lbs), the big fish would hit the big, trailing bait. Heavy, usually wire/monel, line was used on heavy conventional saltwater outfits. Fast-forward to 2011, Paul Elias made big, historic catches in the Bass fishing arena, and the "new" rig was called the Alabama rig. Since that time the Crappie industry took the hint and brought a lightweight version to market. Truly proven and endorsed by Bassers, it had only to configure a panfish version. The original umbrella rig fell into controversy and was rules modified to only ONE jig head that could have a hook(usually the large trailing shad). The other "school" could be nose-hooked from swivels. The Bass world had to do the same modification because of it's high productivity and the construed "unfairness". All tourneys have either disqualified it's use or limited the number of hooks within the "spread". This now brings me to my "Stick-man" lightweight rig(these dogs should hunt!) Made with .024 ga. coffee-colored S/S wire. The @home-water(pool) test went well, so the field test is planned shortly. Also worth noting- why monitor/fish with 4 rods instead of only one? Also, color-mix until preference is found.
Meet the Stick-man-



u2s