It's 50/50 on the likes and dislikes of spider rigging. I just posted a new video of my pros and cons of spider rigging on my YouTube page. Hope you'll check it out and tell me your opinions. YouTube.com/G3sportsman
https://youtu.be/Uv99WMIXEXI
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It's 50/50 on the likes and dislikes of spider rigging. I just posted a new video of my pros and cons of spider rigging on my YouTube page. Hope you'll check it out and tell me your opinions. YouTube.com/G3sportsman
https://youtu.be/Uv99WMIXEXI
Spider rigging, like other techniques, is not a matter of liking or not for me. It has a time and place like other techniques. I will learn any technique I need to if I am not catching at that point of time. I will use it if the situation dictates same as longlining, casting jigs, etc. I haven't had much practice dock shooting but is something I haven't really needed to learn at this point, but like other techniques, I will learn at a point of time where the situation necessitates that I do it.
I really enjoyed the video. It gave me the urge to "git up and go". I often have "git up and go" urges, but most of the time the urges lead me to the toilet.
I am waiting on warmer weather. Age discriminates.
Great video, Scott! You covered the subject very well with the pros and cons. We saw 'em both in this video!:biggrinI love spider-rigging!
Very good video. Spider rigging is a technique that can be used to catch fish if the situation is right, IMO. Thanks for sharing the video.
Love spider rigging...increases the chance of being able to feel a tug on the line.....
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Tried it and did not like having to manage the minners all day. Great way of catching fish though.
I like spider rigging....my wife enjoys it more then single pole jigging and the kids like to watch the poles too,almost like a game to them.
Great video Scott. I love to spider rig with 4 poles but hate spider rigging with 8. Too much to go wrong. To me a great way to fish and not have to fight the wind all day. Love the boat also. Just bought it's little brother, the Sportsman 17 in shadow grass.
Certainly not my favorite, but I know it has a place in the arsenal.
Thanks for the video Scott... I love to spider rig, but sometimes it really can be frustrating.. like when I had 6 poles out and hooked a 4 foot gar... had to retie 4 of the 6.. minutes later hooked another smaller gar and had to retie 2 that time. Hope to see more G3 shows in the near future!
Love spider rigging, especially when I get to do it two man, and even more when I get to do it with my dad! But I catch myself hating it when I find a brush pile or tree top the hard way
excellent video Scott. I use any technique to put fish in the boat. It is so hard to find a day when the wind is not blowing.i like to spyder when the wind is not blowing.
Conditions play a huge part in choosing to do what when . Successful people find what works and when . :popcorn
I always run jigs regardless which state I'm fishing when spider rigging. Most of the year, I prefer to use crappie nibbles instead of minners. The fish like it too!Quote:
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I absolutely love to spider rig.
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Thanks for the video.
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I have never spider rigged and was just wondering only running four rods why did he not spread them out to both sides of the boat seems it would cause less trouble?
Generally speaking, you want to be able to see all the tips of your rods at the same time ... so you can instantly see when one moves while the others don't. If you spread them out too far apart, you're constantly turning your gaze from side to side or one pole to the next to the next .... and may miss a subtle bite.Quote:
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Thanks for sharing the video. I love spider rigging also. :twocents
Love spider rigging and enjoyed the video. Would love to see the same kind of video long lining both with jigs and crank baits
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Makes sense
I love the thump on a single pole but I will spider rig if that's what it takes to catch fish.
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Good video Scott, covered the bases for both sides. Those that are new to it and have never had a day so busy that they have had to stow rods, haven't seen the full experience yet. I always start with 8 rods out front to cover as much area as possible, and have had to cut that in half on a couple of trips. Other species also make it interesting. A 4lb largemouth on 8' of line is just something you have to experience. Good to see you back out here Scott. Shoot me a PM if you get down this way and I'll play hookey that day.
Great video Scott. Thank you for taking the time to make it and explain the pro's and con's of spider rigging. I love it because it is more relaxing than some of the other techniques.
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Excellent video Scott! Thanks!
Thanks for the video I really enjoyed it.
Great video! Really enjoyed it! I started spider rigging a few years ago. And honestly, just the thought of learning it wasn’t very exciting to me, it just looked boring. But what made a believer out of me was fishing on a late spring day when the weather was cloudy, windy, and rainy all day. We didn’t think we were going to catch much of anything. We found a large school packed tightly together in about 16 ft. and we absolutely just killed them! And all day long too! That made a believer out of me!
There is definitely a time and place for spider rigging when other techniques won’t work. I’ve learned to fish about every technique, there is including casting, jigging, shooting docks, trolling or pushing cranks, over the last 4 or 5 years.
It’s to everyone’s benefit to learn all the techniques that you can because there is definitely a time and place to use each one.
But when conditions are right for spider rigging it can be non stop action!
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To complicated for me ,but to be sure it works for striped fish quite well ,i bet the same on crappie
I love it, and use the method more often than not, for me it works well for suspended fish before and after the spawn. I do miss feeling the thump but if you want action and want to put fish in the boat it is the way to fish. I used to shy away from fishing on windy days, but I have a friend who taught me how to drift fish for cats using wind socks and your troling motor and I have applied that to crappie fishing and it works well. My wife and I spent most of January fishing parts of Florida and I would estimate that of all the Crappie fishermen I saw 75% were spider rigging, like it or hate it I think its a method thats here to stay.
I think its great ! because it keeps more people out of my honey holes !
Its just not my thing. Most of the places I fish the cover is too heavy anyway. I like the challenge of going mono e mono with my fish. 1 pole, one jig and one fish at a time.
excellent video. to be honest at first I was not to overwhelmed with the technique but since I have spent sometime learning and practicing with multiple length of rods and played with different types of reels I have learned to enjoy and respect what it can do for you.
Enjoyed the video.
I enjoy spider rigging.
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Great video. For me it's relaxing. I really like to one pole also but just floating along watching poles is about as laid back as it gets.:cool:
I love spider rigging, and do it almost exclusively. It's just a personal choice.
IMO This video makes it look somewhat awkward (and it is starting out), but with time it becomes a relaxing, and effective way to fish.
Really enjoyed your video
It works for us, caught these yesterday on Guntersville.Attachment 294454