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Please tell me what the Seth green rig is? How do u rig it?

Also for you guys that do use the double rig with cranks and spoons do you have problems with tangling up it seams that if you hit a corner the spoon would fall and the crank would entangle??????

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the line has a swivel every 10 ft with a couple oz weight at the bottom. then off of the swivel you put your leader and lure and drag them along. some of the old timers (my grandfather) use them for lakers on the fingerlakes. the idea is to have 10 lures at 10ft 20ft 30ft 40ft etc...

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The Seth Green rig was used before depth finders downriggers and temp gauges. It originated on the finger lakes for lake trout. Anglers knew the fish were somewhere deep. The only way one could affectivly troll for them was to cover as most of the water column as possible. Most rigs consisted of a heavier braided line with bead swivels every 10 feet and a heavy sinker (16 oz or more) on the bottom. The line was attached to a large spool ( some used a victrola record player) and was let out by hand. 10 to 15 leaders were attched to the swivels. Lures were generally silver flutter spoons. Usually 5 spoons were used since the then Conservation Dept law was 15 hook points ie. 5 treble hooks. Inorder to use a second rig after the first rig was set, a plastic jug was attached to it and let out a hundred feet back or so. The line went back a 100feet on the surface and then down with the lures. The second was then set and left straight down from the boat. There was no real playing with fish since it was a hand line with a heavy sinker attached. The fun of the setup was to keep all the leaders from getting tangled. History class over

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