No Alabama Rig in B.A.S.S.

Just issued ruling:

[URL]http://www.wired2fish.com/Alabama-Rig-Banned-by-BASS-for-Elite-Series-and-Classic-WhatsUp6255[/URL]

edited to add: ban is only in Classic and Elite Series

[QUOTE=Tim_T;477972]Just issued ruling:

[URL]http://www.wired2fish.com/Alabama-Rig-Banned-by-BASS-for-Elite-Series-and-Classic-WhatsUp6255[/URL]

edited to add: ban is only in Classic and Elite Series[/QUOTE]

Tim T, I have been copying an posting your info on another site, its smalljaw.com
these latest couple post have certainly brought to light the issues surrounding the bait.

Wow. This might be the "shot heard around the world" among the big circuits...

Right on the way it should be

This is retarded. Everyone has the same opportunity to throw this lure so I don't get it. It's not like only half the field are able to get it. It also doesn't mean you can go out and throw this and win every tournament. Are we going to throw our crankbaits without treble hooks now, get rid of side imaging, power poles make it too easy to bedfish. Where do you draw the line?

I wonder if this makes the "double fluke rig" banned. I know k.v.d. Has really caught them on it in the past.

Yes it is banned if you read the story. I wonder about dragging a jib on the bottom as the weight of a carolina rig? According to the story it would fall into banned as well.

After reading the article it makes perfect sense to me. The below paragraphs are copy/pasted from the article.

The rule change, which does not apply to Bassmaster Open, B.A.S.S. Federation Nation, College B.A.S.S. and other events, clarifies the intent of long-standing rules permitting only one rod, one reel and one cast at a time. No longer permitted are double soft jerkbait rigs, drop shot rigs with jigs used as weights, double topwater setups and other multi-lure rigs, such as “umbrella rigs.”

Rules Committee members believe the rig eliminates some of the skill that should be required in tournament competition at the highest level. “It doesn’t matter how you work it,” said one of the anglers. “The fish can’t help themselves.”

[QUOTE=bigrod;477990]This is retarded. Everyone has the same opportunity to throw this lure so I don't get it. It's not like only half the field are able to get it. It also doesn't mean you can go out and throw this and win every tournament. Are we going to throw our crankbaits without treble hooks now, get rid of side imaging, power poles make it too easy to bedfish. Where do you draw the line?[/QUOTE]

I could ask the question a different way: Where do you draw the line with technology? If it were me there would be no gps, no local help, no depth finders, no power poles, side imaging etc.

Why not allow 14-foot rods? Why not live bait? Why not trolling?

My point is, the line has to be drawn somewhere and this is where B.A.S.S. has drawn it. Will FLW follow suit?

[QUOTE=sweetwater;477997]After reading the article it makes perfect sense to me. The below paragraphs are copy/pasted from the article.

The rule change, which does not apply to Bassmaster Open, B.A.S.S. Federation Nation, College B.A.S.S. and other events, clarifies the intent of long-standing rules permitting only one rod, one reel and one cast at a time. No longer permitted are double soft jerkbait rigs, drop shot rigs with jigs used as weights, double topwater setups and other multi-lure rigs, such as ?umbrella rigs.?

Rules Committee members believe the rig eliminates some of the skill that should be required in tournament competition at the highest level. ?It doesn?t matter how you work it,? said one of the anglers. ?The fish can?t help themselves.?[/QUOTE]

"The fish just can't help themselves" is simply not true. As someone who has thrown it, IT IS NOT A MAGIC LURE!!! For those of you against it...Have you actually fished it?? I'll bet not.. because you would agree it is not as everyone perceives it to be. I don't think it's a matter of it's fishing catching ability BUT a matter of principle. The A-rig as well as the above mentioned techniques have won Elite tourneys and local tourneys as well, however, when KVD won with the double fluke rig several years back, no one made them quit then. What is the difference then than now (See Paul Elias and Mark Menendez). I have another lure...same principle...spinnerbait with a trailer hook and a trailer....same thing..2 different hooks...2 different lures. Folks this is all about MONEY just ask NASCAR. (More baits and bait companies OTHER than the A-RIG bait companies). BASS also just started a rule that their anglers have to fish from the same type of rig that they start the season with...only after complaints of Mark Menendez fishing from an aluminum boat (and winning) so he could get into some backwaters that his 20 footer wouldn't reach (Now that is weird!). Being that they have banned it from the Elite Series others will follow. So no fishing it in tourneys but whose to say you can't fish it to play a little defense (clean out some holes) before the tourney....trust me this will happen. Welcome to the great communistic regime of BASS :)

Ya'll have a good one and good fishing,

Tim

BTW I'm gonna throw the A-rig on Cumberland Saturday..that is if KDFW doesn't ban it before then :)

So what about spinnerbaits with trailer hooks?

[QUOTE=Moon~Shaun;478007]So what about spinnerbaits with trailer hooks?[/QUOTE]

My point also (see my other post above). BASS new rule states only one 1 lure is allowed. Spinnerbait can have 2 different hooks (trailer hook) and 2 different baits (trailer)?? Good question Moonshaun