It gets fun when two hit at once that is were it is good if your fishing parter is real quite to get one of them. Yes at times the fish will get you tangled with other rods. Just have to realize that is part of spider rigging and trolling. When I started trolling another man that had been doing it for years told me to use as many colors of line that I could find. It made it easier to determine which one to cut the jig off of which helps get the tangle out.