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Fished here today with water temps 88.9 to 90 degrees, fished my regular treetop and couldn’t get anything going. Have had a rough time around here for the past two weeks catching crappie here. So I got on some points dropping off in the old river channel 25-35 feet deep pushing the caps and Coleman rig, that’s a catfish catching machine there. I caught 15-20 catfish about 12-20 inches. Not much on catfish but better than nothing.
They sure are good eating when they are that size!
Had my left hand carpal tunnel surgery today so hopefully it won’t be too long before we are able to set up a fishing trip. Been a month on my right hands surgery and it’s doing very good. Need to tell more about the cap and Coleman rig.
The minnow rig was a 1/4 oz caps and Coleman rig, a 3 way swivel at top, one arm has a 8 inch line with a Eagle claw 214el hook, other arm is tied to main line, and the third line is a 24 inch line to 1/4 oz lead, wrapped around 5 times and then 8 inches down to another 214 el hook. I hope I am explaining it correctly.
Here's the Capps/Coleman rig - (more or less)
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/b3/1e/1e/b...d867ab8de1.jpg
You beat me to that one Buckeye, that's the best length and if they're all channels or flatheads then even better.Quote:
Originally Posted by BuckeyeCrappie
You a better man than me lol. I'd have left and looked for fish else where or went home after 2 from the same spot lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Danny Lang
Is this setup more conducive to being pushed in front of boat or trolled longline style out the back of boat?
so this is a drift rig thing ? never seen such , quite interesting , :dono
Yes it’s an interesting setup. A lot of catfish drifting setups like that. The one I like is using a float on the bottom hook line to keep it higher than the weight.
KetchnQuote:
Originally Posted by Ketchn
I fish that rig about 90 percent of the time. You can substitute the 214EL hooks for jigs and plastic but as you probably know, I fish minnows almost all the time. Very slow method of fishing and don’t cover much water at .2mph and fishing 3 to 8 poles pushing out the front.
Lazy man fishing but it does get crazy when they are biting.
Chuck
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Some fish is better than none, dad and mom like catfish, so I stayed there.Quote:
Originally Posted by TreednNC
Originally it was a setup for Spider Rigging .... used by the National Champions Ronnie Capps & Steve Coleman.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ketchn