Alabama Rig

Anybody try any of these yet, just wondering how they work. I'm assuming that you troll with them? I can't see any way to drop em in a tree top without loosing half the lures. lol

I believe most people are casting 'em instead of trolling 'em.

According to the article in Sunday's Democrat Gazette, crappie fishermen are spider rigging/slow trolling with them. He specifically said casting an Alabama Rig for crappie didn't work. He said that was the big difference between using them for bass and crappie. I was wondering where in the thunder he heard that from? Cause I definitely haven't heard anything of the sort, unless it's been mentioned in one of the other state forums I don't frequent. It said they worked better in oxbow lakes due to their lack of structure.

Kindda like spider rigging with 36 poles, only you got 3 on each side. Sounds good.

I am thinking about spider rigging with 8 poles with two Alabama rigs on each one. :yikesI am sure they will work, but then, so does dynamite.

People that tie jigs love those things.:biggrin

Creek, I bet they do!

I haven't used an Alabama Rig myself....just read the paper. Course, I generally don't believe much he writes in the Outdoor section. Now Keith Sutton's articles in the Tri-Lakes edition on the other hand....I really like those.

some of those gar in the oxbows i fish would eat up a 100.00 dollars worth of them before you could get all you poles in the water!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I would think they would work better on some of the deep clear impoundments, as opposed to smaller oxbows. Wouldn't get hung as much, going after suspended crappie. Kinda like what some of the guys are doing with crankbaits, but using an Alabama Rig.

As many jigs as I lose now, I'd have to declare bankruptcy if I fished Alabama Rigs for very long.