Sold / Closed Alabama Rig

[Shelby Lynn]

Does anyone know if a Alabama Rig is legal on Lake Ontario? and if so has anyone tried it for browns in the spring?

[Consigliere]

Far as I know legal as long as it has only 4 hooks.

[Kevin J Legg]

Don't see why it wouldn't be as I believe you can have up to 15 points per line.

[Fish Hunter]

Does anyone know if a Alabama Rig is legal on Lake Ontario? and if so has anyone tried it for browns in the spring?

I'm going to horse around with those this year, a little later.

[pokepole39]

this alabama rig keeps coming up i am from bama and get up their to fish if points are a problem the rig is run without hooks on all but the center rig wich is longer than the rest and has the kook can you imagine 5 hooks and a angry king in the net all the time poor hands will take an ass wooping godd luck on your season

[Shelby Lynn]

I thought about giving one a shot with some single hooked spoons! Let me know if anyone else gives them a go.

[Chinook1981]

That would give a whole new meaning to doubles and triples. I think two guys reeling in fish on 3 rods is already challenging enough.

[TerraPenn]

I ran them this morning...one behind a paddle. Only fished in IBAY. They looked tremendous in the water....no fish though..

[alex1young]

I bought one off ebay a few weeks ago. I plan on running small spoons on them off the planers. We'll see what happens haha

[salmoseine]

Experimented with an umbrella rig on Seneca ~30 years ago... limited results using straight wire and downriggers (a couple 6-7 lb LT). Could have been a NQO problem though

[icedd]

Experimented with an umbrella rig on Seneca ~30 years ago... limited results using straight wire and downriggers (a couple 6-7 lb LT). Could have been a NQO problem though

I fished with a friend on erie 2 years ago he ran an umbrella rig with bare spoons when we stopped catching fish put it out on a dipsy two out of three lines on that side of the boat fired within 15 minutes.

[brucehookedup]

I tried them with live eye gobies and rapalas, no luck. The sticks kept catching each other. Never made the opportunity to try smal spoons. Ran down the chute on a 3 color.

[King Davy]

Back in the Mid 80's I started running the smallest Tuna spreaders I could get (From Offshore Angler). I'd wire a small dodger in the middle of the spreader, and then run hook-less flies or squids on the spreaders, and run a hooked fly or squid off the small dodger about 30 inches back of the dodger. Did well on Lake trout ....and in the fall just clobbered the kings on them on some days. You had to experiment...because some days as you all know...this put too much comotion in the spread.

But it was cool to see this thing catch fish...and some days it really paid off. I still have a few of those spreaders left laying around. Might try them again soon.

[tangler]

Note to self: Dispach fish in net if more than 27 hooks involved!