Texoma Striper Fishing with A-Rigs is fantastic! The A-Rig is castable trolling umbrella rig. Much has been made about the inventor of the A-Rig, but this type of striper fishing lure has been around for a long time. We will give Andy Poss credit for scaling down a trolling umbrella rig so anglers can cast the lure! The A-Rig broke onto the Bass Tournament trail several years ago and is now outlawed on most pro tours. The device is composed of five wires angled like spokes of an umbrella, with fishing lures attached to each end. It mimics a school of baitfish, and striped bass, white bass, and hybrid striper EAT THEM UP!
A-Rigs with Blades are Better!
Most Lake Texoma Striper Guides will tell anglers, blades are better! Just like most good striper fishing lures, they change and improve from year to year! The A-Rig is no exception. The most popular model of A-Rig is the YUM Yumbrella Flash Mob Junior with Willow Blades! Four willow blades added to the wire arms give the A-Rig incredible flash! When you combine a light jig head and five soft plastic swimbaits, you are giving every Striped Bas in Texoma a ball of bait to eat on each cast! You can even find A-Rigs with two willow blades on each arm for a total of eight!FLW Outlaws A-Rigs
There is a reason FLW outlawed the A-Rig, the lure is GREAT! Some Lake Texoma Striper fishing guides will not let customers throw the A-Rig? We understand, and please be very careful casting these five hooked lures! You now have five hooks thrashing about and it’s very common to hook 2 striper on one cast! Texoma Striper Fishing with A-Rigs can be electric, but please use caution!Catch Texoma Striper with A-Rigs
Texoma Striper Fishing with A-Rigs
We don’t fish for millions of dollars on Lake Texoma like the bass anglers of FLW, but we still like to catch lots of Striper Bass! You will see a lot of fishing guides on Lake Texoma throwing A-Rgs, so pick up a few and give them a shot! Texoma Striper Fishing with A-Rigs is very good, so don’t miss out on the action. For more information on A-Rig fishing see fishing guides on Lake Texoma.Texoma Striper Fishing with A-Rigs
Like any good technique, lure or rig, anglers have to continually adapt to the conditions, the pressure and the mood of the bass. The A-Rig and all the bass umbrella rigs that came after caught bass easily and often when they first hit the market. But now it’s becoming more like any other rig. You’ve got to fish umbrella rigs in the right conditions and tailor them to the environment and bass. Here are 5 tips on how to fish for striped bass with castable umbrella rigs. Most of these tips, crossover, to single swimbait fishing! Texoma Striper Fishing with A-Rigs can be explosive if you follow these five tips from Captain John Blasingame!Experiment with Swimbait Size and Jig Head Weight
In 2012 when the A-Rig hit the scene, I honestly think you could put five of any style swimbait on and catch the heck out of striped bass for the first couple of months. But now the baits you choose really seem to matter. Fishing recently with some good umbrella rig anglers, there were definitely smaller baits that produced well on certain days and colors of water. And there were also times where one big bait in the middle with 4 little ones around it caught bigger fish. Five big swimbaits still catch fish, but it seems like the bites are a lot less compared to last year. I actually keep a Plano box of 4 complete rigs all with different baits so I can mix it up constantly. One might have 5 grubs. One holds 5 hollow bodied swimbaits and one I lace with 5 shad tails to keep experimenting with profile and colorNo Blades, No Dice!
Like any other rig or lure, multiple variations of umbrella rigs exist, but one variation, umbrella rigs with willow leaf blades, produces especially well. Deep, cold-water striped bass seem especially susceptible to spinners. When you’re catching Texoma Striped Bass in 20-30 feet deep, a spinner can help slow the rig down and help lock the Striper on its target.Striper Fish Deep Water
When the water was a lot warmer just running the bays and flats and chunking and winding umbrella rigs worked well. But as the water quickly got colder, Striper dropped off the side of channel breaks and stayed deep, following massive schools of shad trying to insulate against the freezing temperatures. For this reason an angler needs to get off the bank and focus more on the bottom of drops and deep flats.Change Retrieve Speeds
Anglers assume you have to emulate trolling when fishing a castable umbrella rig. But truth be told, letting the rig pendulum down a drop is highly effective. I’ve seen and taken several striped bass this winter letting the rig pendulum down a deep break and before it gets into the school, Kaboom!Slow Down Striper Anglers!
When the water is warm and the striped bass are schooled and competitive and willing to chase, winding the rig in at a good clip will produce some bites. But in cold water, those striper are waiting for something to just creep in and out of their zone. Shad aren’t in any big hurry this time of year. You want to wind it just fast enough to keep it off the bottom and the blades turning and the tails kicking. Much faster than that and you’re drastically reducing your bites in the winter. For more information about Texoma Striper Fishing with A-Rigs, see striper fishing guides Lake Texoma
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Catch more Striped Bass on Lake Texoma, with Alabama Rigs! Captain John Blasingame breaks down Striper Fishing Texoma with A-Rigs. Adventure Texoma Outdoors guided striper trips!
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