Thread: Kaw lake archives

Originally Posted by TimY

Went back yesterday evening and ended up with 23 nice fish. Had a couple pushing 15 inches. Fish were suspended over the top of brush in 10 to 12 fow about 7 ft deep. Used jigs tipped with shiners. Water is murky but is clearing up. Should just get better.

I doubt that blind fish minded the murky water.

Hate to rain on the parade...but there's water heading your way...by the way those are nice fish.

Different day yesterday. Fish were buried in the brush after the front came through. Had to anchor and drop shot double minnow rigs into the brush for the bigger fish. Didn't catch a lot of big fish but the ones we had were good ones. Best jig color we found the last few days spider rigging or with drop shots was electric chicken and black chart. tipped with shiners. Little bit of advise for you guys that have never spider rigged and are thinking about trying it. #1 in most lakes around Oklahoma, you don't need 14 to 16 ft rods. We have used 12 footers for years in Oklahoma and Arkansas with good success. They use the longer poles for the shallow water lakes where the average water is 2 to 8 ft deep. The longer the pole, the bigger the challenge. You can always go longer later. #2 start out with 3 to 4 poles until you get the hang of it. Weight varies with the depth you fish but 1 ounce does well in most cases. Get a rod rack for your boat so you can pre-rig them before you go to the lake. Saves a bunch of time and they are not expensive. A lot of people have went to single rod holders for spider rigging. We still use the singles with 5 rod holders. There are a lot of good rod holders out there today. Run different jig colors on every rod until you see what they want. You don't need expensive rods / reels to spider rig but a soft tip seems to work better for the light bites plus they tend to hang on longer since there is lighter resistance. Spider rigging is deadly when the fish are scattered on flats and over brush. It is a lot of fun once you get going.

Originally Posted by TimY

Different day yesterday. Fish were buried in the brush after the front came through. Had to anchor and drop shot double minnow rigs into the brush for the bigger fish. Didn't catch a lot of big fish but the ones we had were good ones. Best jig color we found the last few days spider rigging or with drop shots was electric chicken and black chart. tipped with shiners. Little bit of advise for you guys that have never spider rigged and are thinking about trying it. #1 in most lakes around Oklahoma, you don't need 14 to 16 ft rods. We have used 12 footers for years in Oklahoma and Arkansas with good success. They use the longer poles for the shallow water lakes where the average water is 2 to 8 ft deep. The longer the pole, the bigger the challenge. You can always go longer later. #2 start out with 3 to 4 poles until you get the hang of it. Weight varies with the depth you fish but 1 ounce does well in most cases. Get a rod rack for your boat so you can pre-rig them before you go to the lake. Saves a bunch of time and they are not expensive. A lot of people have went to single rod holders for spider rigging. We still use the singles with 5 rod holders. There are a lot of good rod holders out there today. Run different jig colors on every rod until you see what they want. You don't need expensive rods / reels to spider rig but a soft tip seems to work better for the light bites plus they tend to hang on longer since there is lighter resistance. Spider rigging is deadly when the fish are scattered on flats and over brush. It is a lot of fun once you get going.

Good stuff right there. I went out to Arkansas last October and spider rigged 16' rods with JW. He taught me a lot and had the rigging down like no other I've seen do it. Just recently I got my 4 rod spider rigging setup. I purchased 12' Pinnacle Limited rods from Grizzly Jigs. They were 4 for $75. Bait casters I already had. I chose to build my rigging rod holder and rod storing holder. I made the holders out of pipe from Home Depot and 4 Hi-Tek rod holders from BPS. Great thing about my rigging rod holder was it was only $25 for the piping which I plan on making two 2 rod holders for the transom to pull cranks next summer. Simply remover the Hi-Tek rod holders and transfer to the crank pulling holders when I want to use this technique. The rod storing holder should be completed tonight. I had limited options as this is all on a 1248 jon boat!

Nip that looks really good. I bought the cheaper driftmaster offset rod rack and it works ok. Piece of advise though. If you are traveling very far tie them down good cause they really bounce and you will have a mess when you get to where your going. I use the furnished straps plus parachute cord to hold them in place.

Yeah I looked at that holder but it wouldn't fit my application. So like everything else I've had to do on this boat I had to put some creative work to use. I was counting on rods to bounce so I bought plenty of parachute cord and bungy cords.

Taking the kids and grandkids out tonight to fish under the LED lights. Should be a lot of fun. 3 generations.

Great info on getting started spider riggin'. I agree on starting out on 12' poles and get use to "swinging" Crappie into the boat if you're fishing over 8'. I now use six 14' Ozarks and two 16' B n'M Capps and Coleman poles with bait caster reels. The 16s take a little getting use to but They work great.......dave