On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:53:49 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:30:56 -0500, John H.
wrote:

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:50:19 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:31:44 -0500, John H.
wrote:

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 07:23:55 -0500, HK wrote:

There were a few questions a couple of weeks ago about umbrella rigs.

Here's a commercial webpage that shows a variety of umbrella rigs, their
components, variations, et cetera.

http://www.cnksal****ertackle.com/home.html

tandem rigs with parachutes or bucktails. Only way to go.

Of course, if you did more than 'drift fishing' within twelve feet of the
marina, you'd know that.

I single rig parachute rigs - very seldom use the spreaders although I
have a full set of them from 6 inch to 24 inch and in several
configurations.

Have you ever tried tandem parachute rigs? In the MD portion of the bay, no
more than two hooked lures can be used on one line. A tandem rig allows the
use of two lures.

Actually, I have, but they are hard to fish in the rips that I
normally fish. My normal hunting grounds - Fisher's Island, Westerly
Reef, Seal Rock and Breton Reef off Newport and The Race aren't really
conducive to tandem rigging anything to tell the truth except at ebb
tide when you can drift through, over and around structure.

I'd not try a Robalo on a tandem, as Harry suggested, because the Robalos
move around way too much. You'd have one tangled mess before the lures were
20 yards from the boat.

That's a new one on me - do you mean robablo as in fish robalo
(snook)?

Or do you mean Rapala?

No, I meant Rapala. I wouldn't try tandem lures in rips. We've got a nice
rip area down by the nuclear plant. Great for casting something like 'Bass
Assassins' and dragging back across the rocks. It's a damn busy area
though, so one person *must* pilot the boat.
--
John H

"All decisions are the result of binary thinking."