Alabama rig

[Doufish2]

This rig would not be legal in MN, or would it?

[jcpmn82]

NO!

[Wayne Ek]

But, I can see it breaking a lot of rod tips. That thing is a beast to throw...

[Cecil]

It could be made to be legal in MN for sure. I will be trying one this summer I think. I dont have high hopes since they are at their best with schooling fish (which we dont get as much of). But I will have a MN legal one in the boat

[wormdunker]

Cecil, you sure you just cant the schools? haha

[Cecil]

That certainly may be as well

[TurnUpTheFishing]

It could be made to be legal in MN for sure. I will be trying one this summer I think. I dont have high hopes since they are at their best with schooling fish (which we dont get as much of). But I will have a MN legal one in the boat

Legal how? only one bait with a hook and hope the fish bites the correct bait?

[Cecil]

Pretty much yeah. There are things you could do to make them take the one you want. Or least up the odds...

[bASS_BLASTER]

The only way I see it being legal is having one lure rigged with a hook and the rest are dummies. (See pictures). I've done this in the past but it gets expensive for these swimbaits, 3 for $9. So you're looking at $15 swimming there. The results for me was not worth it so I went back to basics, 1 swimbait (robo shad). Like I've said in many forums, if its legal in your state, more power to you. There is no such thing as a secret bait/lure where you can close your eyes, cast anywhere and catch fish. The real secret is in the fishermen, skills, experience and locating the fish.

[river rat316]

You could use the 3 wire variety on the river south of the Croix (pool 3 and down) and on the St Croix, and use 2 with hooks and one that had a spinnerblade on it or something, or 2 with hooks and one without, from what I have saw you really want to make sure you have the hook on the trailing center bait.

[BDawg23]

I was down in Arkansas in early November and everybody I talked to down there said I needed one of these rigs. The unfortunate thing is they were back ordered for weeks because of the popluarity on those large resovoirs where the fish school heavily. Wish I would have had one because we struggled to put fish in the boat. I will boat some pictures of the results one of these days.

[grab the net]

I would think if you replaced the dummy baits with a willow leaf blade of similar size, you would accomplish the same thing, and cheaper also.

[Hester]

That would be interesting grab the net, can you imagine how it would pull through the water if you had 4 nice sized willow leaf blades on a already big rig like that.

Or trying to pull slime or grass of the blades and o rings of all those things.

The next thing will be a crankbait that has 4 or 5 bodies that are all connected with a thin wire. Someone make one and we can split the profits.