If you follow the bass fishing world in any way, then odds are that at one time or another you have heard about the Alabama Rig. It's what everybody has been talking about ever since it won the Lake Guntersville tournament on October of 2011, just a few months ago. Soon after the tournament, these rigs were selling for seventy five dollars a pop on the internet. The race to get them was only outmatched by individual states racing to outlaw them.
For those who don't know, standard fishing laws and regulations place a limit on how many hooks may be fished at one time. The Alabama rig utilizes five hooks in a system that imitates a school of minnows such as shad. It's incredibly effective for bass when they are suspended in open water. However, the multiple hooks in the rig make it illegal in many states, including Minnesota.
Alternatives? You could cut the extra wires off, fishing only a few of the baits. You could leave some of the lures unhooked for "dummy" baits to serve as attractors. Or you could attach blades to the outside wires and use only one hook. Of course, the hard part is getting one.
Check it out, for curiosity's sake. It's all over publications like North American Fisherman, Field and Stream, and In Fisherman. Pretty cool but honestly, I think that they will be illegal everywhere soon enough.
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