Umbrella rig with LARGE shads

[bgreene]

I've had good success trolling shad umbrella rigs for striped bass.

So this winter, I'm rigging one with large 12" white shad bodies, intention being to see if it catches larger stripers.

Plan to start when the larger fish are running up from the south.

Early season for Stripes it's clamming......then chunking and trolling the stretch lures.

Looking forward to it.

[yodaddy]

I've always had success with umbrellas and shad bodies, but never tried the 12" bodies. Sounds like a good idea.

[SkunkBoat]

That'll put a big pull on the line. Might be hard to keep down, even on wire line.

[Striper80]

Get some big old bunker spoons.

[bgreene]

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.

[Striper80]

Originally Posted by bgreene

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.