gotta question for you spider riggers

[talltimber]

I generally just use one jig with a 3/8 oz weight about a foot or so above it. Sometimes I'll add another jig above the weight, but not when I'm around any brushpiles or stumps. The second jig above the weight adds a lot of aggravation (tangling) that I don't want to have to deal with. Most often just the one jig and weight. I'm also not hung up on the vertical line thing. For a good while this winter/spring the fish here wanted the bait moving quite fast. I was trolling .8-1.3 and catching fish, quite a few fish. If I let the speed drop down to .6 or so, not so much. The lines were laid back pretty good. Yes, I tried slowing down and raising baits thinking that they were just a tad shallower. They were, but still couldn't catch near as many as when I had more line out and moving on. If a guy thought that he really needed the line vertical, then he would have to add more weight. Now, just to be clear, deep to me is 8'+. Very seldom do I place my baits any deeper than 5' - maybe in the winter and summer when fishing the river channel.

[das speck hunter]

i use 1/2, 3/4 or occasionally 1 oz dbl. rigged

[rnvinc]

You can never go too slow for spider riggin...

Rickie

[501mooney87]

i use 1/2, 3/4 or occasionally 1 oz dbl. rigged

Your talking about with 1/2, 3/4, or 1oz weight added to your double rig right?

[rnvinc]

Some guys spider rig with extra weight above the bait/baits...like in a Capps and Coleman rig...

Other guys spider rig with extra weight below the bait/baits...like in a Ky rig...

Which way you choose is personal choice....add weight if you think it is necessary to keep the lines as verticle as possible...

To add weight or not to add weight is a matter of keeping the baits in the strike zone for the speed you are going ...relative to the weight of your rig.....

Recognize that moving fast enough to cause the lines to be at an extreme angle (or not enough weight to keep the lines verticle)raises the bait out of the strike zone that you are trying to target....

Keeping the lines verticle keeps the bait in the strike zone you have targeted...

Rickie

[sbcpower]

rnvinc 'splained that like a professor! Hands Clapping Well done, Sir!

Just remember; avoid adding weight AT the baits[heavier jigs, split-shot, etc.]...kills their action. I've gone to using a C&C rig with aberdeen hooks instead of jig heads. So far it has worked really well, and I don't get NEAR as many tangles, and the fish sem to hold it a little longer before spitting it out.