4-19-2014 Report

[Feathers and Fins]

I don't see why not. Just mount the rig so it is not in the way of the controls. I am more concerned on 150 for a spider rig though. Are you talking the mount or mount and rods?

[Guest]

Mount & rods for a 17ft G3 panish model boat 70hp Yamaha 4stroke, 70lb Minn kota edge TM.

Yet to be mounted Lowrance Elite 5

[Lance34]

I started spider rigging this year and I'm hooked. I installed Hi-teck rod holders and they work perfectly. We put the mount plates at the front corners on the bow so we have plenty of room for two guys to sit up front to use a foot control TM and to maximize our pole lengths. Only issue is if you have to make a run you have to take one holder down to get the trolling motor up. But it is easy just unscrew one screw from the plate and slide her off. Our set up on a bass track 170

[Feathers and Fins]

Trophy that should work fine.... Beware its addicting though, I can run the spider off the front, two planers on the midsection, down riggers behind them and then two trolled rigs from console side and a fly out the back 11 total rods out SHUT UP DOC AND JOE you both still carry more than me in the boat.

It is a ton of fun and your head has to be on a swivel running that many but dam its more fun than should be legal.

[Guest]

thats better than beating the banks

[Feathers and Fins]

Oh man for Bank attacking its sweet... I use the 11'6'' lews and stick them all sideway and cruise the bank, its deadly.

[hoglaw]

Going to try the crappie upriver this afternoon. I'll let you know how it goes. I'm not set up to troll 11 rods unfortunately so I'll have to make do beating banks. Are the whites still up around twin in numbers? I had a pretty disappointing year with the whites. Never seemed to be in the right place at the right time for fly rod fish. Caught good ones by beavorama in march, but that's just about it other than one not so good wading trip.

[npierceuark]

There are plenty of whites still left roaming around the upper stretches. Caught a handful of crappie as well but gave up pretty quick and went back to the whites. Every crappie I caught up there was 9" +/-, no keepers. Text me and I will give you some details.

[Feathers and Fins]

River should still have some whites, but I will be betting many are moving back to the lake. This weekend I would be looking from Horseshoe Bend to Coppermine. If you are a crappie addict that zone would be the 100% no doubt about it area to be.

[hoglaw]

Crappie were tough for me, but then again I'm not that good at it. I wound up with six keepers that I gave to an older gentleman and his wife. I caught my fish very shallow swimming a jig. I had one really good one get off, and another big one flash at it just under the boat.

While waiting to get my boat out of the water, I talked to a guy for a while who had an extremely sweet spider rigging set-up. He said he was pre-fishing for some kind of crappie masters tournament this weekend. Very nice guy all decked out in ASU stuff. He said that they had got into them pretty good fishing in 12 feet of water and had caught a bunch of big fish, but he said all the big females they caught were spawned out. Water temps were between 69 and 67 where I was (the 412 bridge area). Seemed to be warmer up the river and cooler downstream.