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Originally Posted by bgreene View Post
Got spoons, and been fishing wire for a few years ........

I expect the big shad rig will swim down ok, especially since I use a drail weight.

I've caught many a striper trolling the shad umbrellas, double, triple, and at the end of last season FOUR on one umbrella !!!! One was a keeper, I forgot. Boater near me claimed he had FIVE schoolies on one !!!


I rigged it up - 4 and 1 down the middle.
Can't hurt to try something different. How much drail weight do you normally run? I've always just used wire and the umbrellas. I've been running 150ft of wire but I'm going to upgrade this year to 450ft so I have a little more depth control.
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