Educate Me On An Alabama Rig

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For starters, what action pole and length are y'all using?

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7 foot medium heavy. Tighten down on drag and toss. 16 lb Sniper fluoro

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What weather conditions make you want to throw one?

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Winter and colder water. Tough this year.

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Any other info is appreciated.

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Don’t know if this matters or not but we don’t have live scope.

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It matters. It works best with targeted fish. Right now on my East Texas lake they are out there in 16 feet and deeper water but are suspended. It's best to have LS to put the ARig at the proper depth.

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For starters, what action pole and length are y'all using?

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Prettymuch anything you would throw a big crank on, MH or H with a moderate to fast action.

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What weather conditions make you want to throw one?

What water conditions and depth make you want to throw one?

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None. Throwing an A-rig is a gigantic pain in the arse. It will work any time of the year in any conditions on a shad fishery, but it’s the equivalent of sitting over corn deer hunting turkeys, if I have to resort to that I might as well go buy some fricking golf clubs.

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Twice a year we have tournaments where we can fish this style bait. Where we usually fish we’d lose it in 4 cast or it would just drag the marsh bottom whole time.

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Without LiveScope you will randomly be tossing out in water that 98% has no fish. You can improve your chances by fishing down a point or on a creek bend for example. The ARig is best used to target schooled fish. That's why it occasionally happens to catch more than one at a time. In my observation of active fish on LiveScope, one will come up and bite and a half dozen will follow it to the boat. Normally you'd never see this. It is a pain in the arse to throw an ARig repeatedly, for an hour or two or three. Consider it the equivalent of throwing six spinner baits at once.
One other bit of advice, and it comes from a friend of mine who fishes TBend all the time and that is to watch the birds. If you come across loons(first and foremost), they are diving on shad and the fish are commonly underneath. Pelicans, cormorants and sea gulls also dive on shad. Watch them. And know your water depth.

Make sure your baits are separated good. Had a cheap rig and when I reeled it up to the boat they were attached to each other. Like Alabama cousins.

Didn’t think about different colored baits.

Thanks

I really like to have a bladed Alabama Rig.

So you rather the spinner bait looking ones?

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So you rather the spinner bait looking ones?

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Yes it slows down the drop and the flash looks like a school of fish in the water.

You and your livescope are contributing to the death of game fishing everywhere. It’s not fishing and takes zero skill other than video gaming and depleting fish populations. You are literally less than human to me. Zero fishing skills and using video gaming to kill it for everyone else. I’ll fight you anywhere any time over this, you skillless prick.

Bridge rip rap. Most boat ramps are adjacent or nearly so to a bridge with rip rap on it. There is no time of year and no water conditions when that rip rap does not hold fish. One doesn't need $10,000 in electronics to fish rip rap...you can find it on google maps. You can get to it with a trolling motor or a paddle. Hell you can walk to it and if you fish it long enough you will catch a shite ton of fish. If you really want to catch fish and ain't just boating using fishing for an excuse cast net some shad or local bait fish and flat line them around the nearest bridge rip rap....you can catch the bait there as well. Catching bass and crappie and catfish is as easy as catching saltwater fish...find current and something that is breaking it....bridge rip rap....and there is going to be fish on it all day every day and feeding. I like running up and down the lake as much as anyone but if one is merely fishing to catch fish its hard to beat rip rap.