Have you ever seen a person on the water and it looked as if they were fishng a chandelier with swimbaits and blades hanging all over the place?
Welcome to the world of fishing the castable umbrella rig, also known as an Alabama or A-rig!
My personal experience with this type of bait started decades ago when trolling a similar type of weighted, multi-baited wire-form rig (referred to as an umbrella rig) off the northeast coast for striped bass and bluefish.
Many years later, folks in the southland adapted a lighter, more easily castable version of of this rig (then referred to as the Alabama rig or A-rig) with paddletail swimbaits or grubs for all species of black bass.
Most bass anglers use long rods with heavy action and high test braided line to offset the bulky nature of the rig.
On the other hand, bass aficionado Jimmy Houston has a simpler approach to fishing the Alabama rig that many new A-rig anglers might find beneficial!
Take a few minutes and watch as Jimmy explains his set-ups and basic approach to casting and fishing the A-rig for bass...
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