| Headhunter |
07-21-2016 08:28 AM |
I knew this would get a reply. It is true though. When the A-rig was FIRST available (I purchased 2 from Andy Poss himself) ANYTHING over ONE hook or bait on an A-rig was illegal if the hooks were larger than size 6 or 8 (a bluegill hook for the most part) and that was the law, I did not understand how they were using it in tournaments, this was before the TWRA put the 3 hook law out. The first tournament won using the a-rig in Tennessee, that pro was illegal by the fishing guide. It kind of made me upset, pro tournament fisherman used it to win a tournament and it was illegal. This was before TWRA came out with the 3 hook law. Many were fishing with these baits for a couple years before the law was "defined".
The very first day I threw it, (not sure but 7 or 8 years ago, at least several years ago) I put 5 jig heads and worms or twister tails on since it was illegal to have MORE THAN ONE "bass" sized hook anyways until the TWRA put out a law regarding it. It didn't matter if you had 2, 3, 4 or 5, you were illegal, I asked one game warden what he thought and he said he had no clue. I showed him the fishing guide and he said that law was created because of umbrella rigs and stripers. I only threw it a few casts one afternoon. Tried it on the bottom in schooling fish and never got a hit, don't even think they looked at it and I was catching one most every cast on a crankbait or a plastic worm, I was wondering about the $50 I had spent on the 2 rigs. Same afternoon, some small bass came up in the jumps and they hammered it. Only threw it for a few casts and put it away. Crazy thing is I own probably 20+ a rigs and I have almost never thrown them. I have only used them one other time for a couple days in the Cumberland and got into a huge argument with a guy (this was after the law for them was defined, you can have 5 baits but only 3 hooks) and he was going nuts, I put 5 jig heads on it when fishing for stripers, 3 are gamakatsu jigs and 2 are cheap jigs that I cut the hooks off, leave just enough to hold a swim tail or grub. There are times stripers will hammer them, but I have only ever fished with them a couple mornings. The rest of the time they have been hanging on my peg board at home.
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