CrappieNow Reported: Preferences on rod holder design vary with each crappie pro, but they do concur on one important aspect. When they mount a set of rod racks they don’t want the holders to move. So the key to putting together a good spider rigging system is acquiring heavy-duty, stable racks that will prevent rod vibration. “Some of the pole holders have little rods for the shaft and if you are in wind when the rods are bouncing and your whole rack is bouncing it is hard to detect a bite,” says Paul Alpers, a veteran tournament angler and former president of the Crappiemasters tournament trail. So he suggests finding a rack with a thick shaft that will keep the rods stable even in rough water.
Alpers notes crappie pole holders have come a long way from the early days when he and other spider rig pioneers designed homemade versions from PVC or metal pipes and 2 x 4 boards. “We had metal pipes with holes drilled through them and we would have a wing nut on them to hold the rod holders,” Alpers recalls. “These companies now have really mastered the rod holders.”
The Missouri angler favors Tite-Lok rod holders because he can hand tighten the holder with a wing nut. “Most of the rod holders have so many adjustments that have to have wrenches to get them to set right for your poles,” Alpers says. “Tite-Lok has one adjustment where you unscrew the nut and you can twist the holder to the right or left.” Continue reading at CrappieNow….
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