alabama rig

That's what Bassmaster Top-notch Series expert and Early in the eightys Bassmaster Classic champion Paul Elias thought to himself whenever he initial rigged a few soft plastic swimbaits to a "Alabama rig" and taken them with the pond powering his Mississippi home.

This individual was proper, too. The Alabama rig worked regarding Elias on Lake Guntersville to the track of a $100,000 FLW Tour Open up victory in which he lapped the rest of the field, cracking the 100-pound tag with Twenty bass and also besting second place by greater than 17 kilos.

Elias is no unknown person to introducing new techniques. In 1982, he or she won the particular Bassmaster Classic simply by "kneeling and reeling" (immersing most of his fishing rod beneath the water to obtain extra degree out of his crankbaits).

Twenty-nine years afterwards, he's doing it again.
alabama rig
If you have ever trolled for stripers or other pelagic varieties, you probably understand all about the "umbrella rig.Inch It's essentially the wire funnel sporting several "arms" to which lures or baits are linked. At its center is a line-tie (in the case of the actual Alabama rig, a hard lure body) as well as multiple hands emanate as a result, almost like the spokes on a wheel. Because they're line, you can flex and alter them to satisfy your desired demonstration. Think of a cellular for a crib - together with hooks! -- and you'll get the concept.

Elias first fulfilled the Alabama rig, and its developer, Andrew Poss, at a Pickwick Lake charity tournament a few months back again. Poss introduced himself and demonstrated Elias the rig outfitted with some curled-tailed grubs. He or she talked about his / her tournament achievement with the tool and gave Elias a few them. Then he got them home and attempted them in his pond.

"I think it is going to be fantastic at Guntersville," Elias said. I would run up to be able to Nickajack Dam and give it a try in reality, but then the tournament authorities put Tennessee waters against the rules [see more about umbrella rigs as well as Tennessee waters below], so I almost forgot about it."

Instead, Elias went about his training period hurling the usual lures that interest Guntersville bass : frogs and rodents, jerkbaits, spinnerbaits, crankbaits and dropshots -- and had been catching a few fish, although not exactly ripping them upwards