C&C double minnow rigs that are made by bnm use heavier line and mr. Capps himself agrees with you rnvinc so I wouldn’t say you are odd in your thinking.
I'm the odd man out when it comes to spider riggin ... especially in line weight choice ...
I feel that heavier line with lite wire hooks allows a greater percentage of time that the baits are actually in the water (where the fish are) ...
In water that has any color whatsoever - I would challenge anyone to rig half their spider riggin poles with 12-15lb (any main line scenario with 12-14lb flourocarbon leader) ... along with lite wire hooks (that can be reshaped and put right back into the water) ...
Then compare number of fish caught in the same time period against their normal spider rigs with "lite line because crappie can only be caught on light line" ...
More bait time in the water (by simply reshaping the hook) vs having to re-rig every breakoff (even pre-rigs take time to change) should be noticed ...
The math (in numbers of fish caught per line weight choice) may be quite revealing in "fishin all day" vs "re-riggin all day" ...
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C&C double minnow rigs that are made by bnm use heavier line and mr. Capps himself agrees with you rnvinc so I wouldn’t say you are odd in your thinking.
I use 20 lb braid with mono or floro droppers in 12-14 lb. and I agree on the lite wire hooks if your fishing brush and stumps a lot. Just never found any need for all that lite line spider rigging.
It would work just fine. Here is what I do. Fill reel almost full of cheap mono. Then add about 40-50 feet of braid. Braid does not wear out though colored line will fade over time. In spider rigging you are using maybe 30 ft most of the time. Rarely are you breaking it off or trimming it back so no need for a lot of line doing nothing but filling spool. If it fades bad next season just pull line out to end cut off and spoil back on in reverse. Brand new line on hook end. It expensive but one spool normally fills all your reels this way. And at minimum 2 years from it.
Braid would do OK on the reel ... it's the rod you need be mindful of, as you want to have the drag set a tad loose so it don't overload the rod if you set the hook on a stump, instead of a fish. Guides should be ceramic ring inserts if you want to lessen the "zinnngg noise" of braid coming thru the guides. SS guides are also good, as there's no insert to pop out, but the trade-off is that buzzing noise.
And like Cray says ... fill most of the reel up with el cheapo mono (even old leftover mono from other reels) and then tie on a 50-60ft stretch of braid. The mono helps keep the braid from slipping around the arbor, which it can do if the spool is completely filled with just braid.
On my Spider rigging rods I have stainless eyes but not casting. I have used braid on ultra lights before on ultra lights after arbor knot I would use series of half hitches like a clove hitch so it sinches onto itself and doesn't spin around when spoiled out and retrieve reeling
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