Whites On The A-Rig

[Bitethis]

Put in at Aldrich yesterday afternoon around 3pm. Took a boat ride up the river between steel bridge and Taylor bridge. Fished from 330 - 530. I caught my limit of whites at 4:20pm...my fishing partner had 2. I handed him my a-rig set up, he had a limit in 30 mins.

I have never used an A-rig before yesterday. I was totally impressed with it, although my shoulder is a little sore today, lol. I didn't land a double at any point, but hoped for one the whole time out. While i was slaying the whites, my partner tied on a swim bait exactly like I had on the rig. He fished it to no victory. It was the fact of having 3 swim baits and 2 spinner blades all balled up. It was very fun, and very nice to go out, catch a limit in an hour, and then sit back and enjoy the scenery.

There are still a bunch of whites in the river :-)

[mojasonh]

Where is a good place to launch I have never fished that end of the lake?

[Bitethis]

Where is a good place to launch I have never fished that end of the lake?

We put in at aldrich

[mojasonh]

Have you been out to turnback at all?

[Bitethis]

I have not recently, no.

[mojasonh]

It is a bit closer for me just curious if the fishing would be as good off cc and up the creek

[ddhlakebound]

It's gotta be worth a shot jason......If you go, I think I'd try some sort of a small chartreuse/pick your fav color combo jig, and fish in close to the banks nice and slow. People were probably catching a few on spinners and cranks, but the little jigs are where my bet is. Er........, maybe that was last week or something.

[dennis boatman]

...A-rig for whites is AWESOME...been using it all spring and having waaay to much fun with it...

[stuartsx5]

I have seen the A rig talked about on here but I have no idea what it is. Could someone explain this for me?

[zarraspook]

Here is a link to the Bassmasters site showing the Alabama Rig...

The thing about the rig is you can use any thing from crappie jig to $ 45 swim baits on it...

They come in 3 & 5 wire ..... In Missouri you can only have 3 hooks so, I put spinnerbait blades on the other two wires..

http://www.bassmaster.com/tips/its-new-its-different-its-alabama-rig