[3 dogs]

Has anybody ever trolled in the spring with these on parachutes or bucktails? If so how well did they work? thanks for your input, greg

 

[rocksteady]

I've used them with success as teasers on umbrellas and as the trailer on a big bucktail .

 

[Echo]

Some of the prettiest umbrella rigs I've ever seen, were made of all 10" BKD's.. I would think 7" BA's would be too low profile.

 

[Baldzilla 2.0]

Run em every spring, love my BKDBRELLAs...they produce!

 

[iFishMD]

I have found that they don't swim like a shad or twister tail and don't think they work as well.just my experience and thoughts. Everyone has what works for them.

to me they work best when being jigged to give them more movement.

 

[basshby]

In Spring of 2007, I read a report on this board of someone who rigged up a BassAssassin umbrella rig. For two years I have been trolling a chartreuse BassAssassin 6 arm umbrella rig and have caught a lot of stripers. I use an 8 inch curly tail on 4oz bucktail jig as trailing bait. Also rigged up a white rig that also caught a few fish. In 2007 it (chartreuse) was my best rig in late May and June catching 18" to 26" stripers. Pics below of umbrella and some of the catches:

Son-In-Law with fish:

Another Son-In-Law with fish:

My Scout 175 boat pic:

 

[night nurse]

Who cares what it is, if you catch fish on it.. fish it and do tell.

TED

 

[ZAM]

A few years ago me and a couple friends of mine were jigging BAs in the summer time, We were catching fish but not to great. I decided to just troll the BAs around and you couldn't keep the lures in the water for more then a few seconds without a fish hitting it. the only problem was that most were swallowing the lures. we caught about 10 fish and about 8 of them swallowed the lures down into their bellies ( all under sized), we had to quit doing it because to many were dying. So for that one time I tried it, it woked, but a little to well