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Old 12-29-2011, 06:53 PM   #1
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A-rig Thoughts?

This thing has been dominating in fresh water i wonder what the effectiveness in launching one from the shore would be.


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Old 12-29-2011, 08:02 PM   #2
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I think it would work fine for schoolies but I frown upon targeting schoolies both from a health of the fish perspective and a desire to limit their knowledge of hooks while they are too small to take for the table. I made a similar rig maybe 10 years ago that consisted of 2saltwater spinner baits I epoxied together and put 2 storm shads on it but I never caught with it. I'll post a picture when I find it. It didn't cast real well and occasionally foul hooked so I retired it due to lack of confidence (I made it so I assumed I got it wrong) maybe I will get it out again now that I can troll it from my yak. Here's a crappy photo of a spreader I tried and another brain fart where I removed the deep swimming lip and tried to make the plug look like more than one fish.
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Old 12-29-2011, 08:53 PM   #3
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Found it along with 2 other prototypes, it's kind of hard to see but I used silver leaf and some eyes I altered to make the head where the two spinnerbaits are twisted together, silver leaf for the frankenstein attempt which also has feathers out of the sides to simulate fins.
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This next picture shows my first attempt at simulating a herring I made when you could no longer fish herring, kind of a Frankenstein compared to the other which is a third attempt at the plug in my avatar which actually got voted best handcarved at plugfest a few years back. It has part of a sinker epoxied under the chin that I was using to see what different weights would do to the action, I used a cordless dremel while testing to remove some of the lead to see how it affected the action......then along came Sebile and my plug building went on the back burner because I did not feel I was capable of making something that would perform as well. I even got a lathe that I've yet to use I hope to revisit plug building eventually.


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Old 12-29-2011, 09:16 PM   #4
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PROOF that fluorocarbon is a waste of money
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Old 12-30-2011, 08:11 AM   #5
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That a-rig would be dy-no-mite with 5 eels trailing off the back of it!

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