Thread: I caught a few Bass on Kentucky Lake with my version of the Alabama Rig I made

Some of you asked to see my Rigs, so I thought I would post some pics.


I know this is a Crappie forum, but I also know many of you are interested in the Umbrella Rigs.

wtg, always cool to catch fish on something you made. have you tried jiging it over stumps/brush for crappie or just casting it? i thought i would try it that way. sure would have to be carefull though, and stay high! i would imagine if you dropped that thing into a tree top it would never come out! lol

Here is a 4 Pound Bass I caught on KY Lake with the rig.


http://www.kentuckyhunting.net/forum...4&d=1330527617

Some of you may like this information.


A lot of these items needed to make an Alabama Rig can be bought at Lowes, Home Depot, or other hardware stores, that carry things like Wire.


You may use Wire from Spinnerbaits, and Buzzbaits also, or similar Wire.




I made a few of mine out of .035 stright wire . And it was seven and half inches long but you will still need to bind the end of wire . The wire has a hook at one end which i put all 5 wires in one of a end of a swivle then put in the mold, I did this for some of my Crappie Rigs, and for some of my Bass Rigs. It seemed to work pretty good.imo

1. Drill a larger hole in a sinker

2. Make a loop in a wire with a pair pliers, slide a swivel up the wire, then slide the wire back down thru the hole in the sinker until the tag end sticks out the bottom of the sinker

3. slide a 3/32" ferrule up the wire to the bottom of the sinker and insert the tag and 4 other wires(from the flags) into the ferrule, then crimp it with a tool

4. Then you should have a swivel attached to the main wire, the bullet or egg weight, a ferrule with 5 wires crimped inside it. (Or how ever many wires you want on your Rig). imo

5. After this, you need to slide the 1/16" ferrule onto each wire, loop the wire, put a lock swivel on the end of each wire, slide the ferrule back down the wire with the swivel in each loop and crimp the ferrules.

6. Then you can attach jig heads to the snap/cross/interlock swivels along with swim baits, grubs, jigs, etc.

Here is another Bass I caught on Kentucky Lake with my Umbrella Rig, it was around 5 Pounds.

http://www.kentuckyhunting.net/forum...0&d=1331071553