Spider Rigging Speed

[Tippecanoe41]

When the fish are beginning to spawn (water low 60's), what speed do you like to spider rig? Just minnows or do you try other lures on there too? What's your setup look like? Thanks for the help.

[jjue1979]

I have spider rigged as slow as 0.1 mph to as fast as 1.0 mph, depending on what the fish want. Whenever I make a turn and start catching fish on the outside rods, I know that I either need to speed up or shallow up.

While I haven't fished with minnows for about 10 years, they do work when the bite is tough on artificial lures. I typically use two jigs tied via loop knot about 14-16" apart on average--bottom one may or may not be a roadrunner/spin fin style of jig head depending on what they are biting. My typical weight is 1/16 oz each, although I have gone down to 1/32 oz each. Sometimes I use a little extra weight to keep them down; sometimes I don't.

[Tippecanoe41]

I have spider rigged as slow as 0.1 mph to as fast as 1.0 mph, depending on what the fish want. Whenever I make a turn and start catching fish on the outside rods, I know that I either need to speed up or shallow up.

While I haven't fished with minnows for about 10 years, they do work when the bite is tough on artificial lures. I typically use two jigs tied via loop knot about 14-16" apart on average--bottom one may or may not be a roadrunner/spin fin style of jig head depending on what they are biting. My typical weight is 1/16 oz each, although I have gone down to 1/32 oz each. Sometimes I use a little extra weight to keep them down; sometimes I don't.

So you're saying sometimes you spider rig with just 1/16 oz jigs and don't have like the typical egg sinker on there to keep them straight down? Seems like if you were fishing baits that light more than a few feet deep the baits would end up under the boat?

Also, what plastics do you like for this? Do you want them to mimic minnows or do you do tubes/ bug looking baits?

Thanks for your input. It is greatly appreciated.

[jjue1979]

You use more line to get everything deeper when going faster. Sometimes they need to float around shallower.

As for plastic baits, I use literally anything and everything that attracts them—tube skirts, Bobby Garland, etc.

[BuckeyeCrappie]

[Eagle 1]

I usually ran 4 out the front at .5 nut last week we ran at pickwick 8 (pushed) out the front 8(pulled ) out the back at .5-1.0

[Tippecanoe41]

I usually ran 4 out the front at .5 nut last week we ran at pickwick 8 (pushed) out the front 8(pulled ) out the back at .5-1.0

Nice. Catch a bunch? What was the water temperature?

[CrappiePappy]

I usually ran 4 out the front at .5 nut last week we ran at pickwick 8 (pushed) out the front 8(pulled ) out the back at .5-1.0

I'm in your camp, Eagle 1 ..... you're Spider Rigging at 0.5mph or less & Pushing at 0.6mph or more. That's just an arbitrary cutoff that I like to use to seperate the two methods.
To me it don't matter where the rods are located on the boat, or the number of rods being used. Spider Rigging has the lines +/- straight down, while Pushing has the lines at around a 45* angle. Spider Rigging may employ live bait, whereas Pushing does not.