Umbrella rigs

[KYKevin]

I live in a small town, and went to Price Ut, before a trip one year, and bought the best they had at Walmart, and they were not good enough, the Striper were 4 1/2 and 5 lb in the San Juan that year, and I was getting them ripped apart, until I went back to using the leader. Your better off getting Quality tackle if you can, now I order 70+ lb swivel's

 

[mtnpull]

So, I spend Monday - Thursday on the Lake and spend a good portion of that time trolling for stripers. We used one umbrella rig and three lines with assorted depths and colors of cranks. The umbrella rig outfished the other 3 lines probably 4 to 1. It was super effective. In fact when we would pass over a school you could pretty much countdown to the line getting hammered. We typically caught between 25-30 stripers a day and most days we got on the water around 10 or 11 and off by 4ish with an hour or so throwing ned rigs for bass.

Tips for the umbrella rig.

I use captain macks umbrella rigs. Utah only allows you have 3 hooks so we begrudgingly cut the hooks off some of the lures. To ensure we get the least amount of hits to lures without a hook, we will make sure the 3 with hooks are on a longer line than the others so they are essentially on the back of the school. This seems to work really well with most of the hits resulting in a hook up! Wayne, I would love to see the Utah rule changed at least for powell. I feel that you could definitely pull a lot more stripers from the lake with the ability to use umbrella rigs with 5-9 hooks. Also, if you have a hit but fail to hook one or if you inadvertently drag bottom, then reel in and check the rig. They can end up tangled a bit and be ineffective. For this trip we trolled between 3-3.5 mph and kept the rig about 15' depth. We trolled in 20-30' of water primarily.