I don't really know how I feel about it. I can remember years ago....before they became illegal....when folks at Pickwick used huge umbrella rigs for Striper fishing. Those guys would use 90# test line to pull those through the water and I just did not see the sport or fun in it. For years at Pickwick people would use two jigs attached to one line to fish for Whites during their spawn....often catching two fish on every cast and having a limit after 15 casts...that is when the limit was 30. But that is really not in comparison to umbrella rigs. I am going Crappie fishing tomorrow and last night I was reading about the Alabama rig and thought about putting 2 Trout Magnets on my line...about 2 feet apart...and see if I could hook up with two Crappie at the same time. But I guess the best part would be having two baits going through the same zone where fish are holding and you statistically double your chances of hooking up with a fish. It would not surprise me to see this thing banned at BASS Tournaments. If for no other reason there are several states they go to that they can't legally fish like that.
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