Maybe Carl Jocumsen's luck is changing for the better after the nightmare of a vehicle burglary he suffered during his travels to Lake Norman. We just pulled up on him as he boated a double caught on an umbrella rig. Only one met the 14-inch minimum length limit. It was his second keeper of the morning.
On his next cast, Jocumsen caught keeper No. 3.
If you follow BASS, you know that umbrella, or A-rigs, aren't allowed on the Elite Series, but they are permitted in the Opens. And there will be a lot of A-rigs getting dunked in Lake Norman this week. It's a good way to put a limit in the boat on a lake that's chock full of spotted bass.
Pro bass anglers seem to have a love/hate relationship with the A-rig. As one Elite Series pro said last night on the subject, "I'm going to let them have that this week."
The best comment I've heard on the A-rig came from Jason Christie last year. It came after he won an FLW tournament on Beaver Lake with an A-rig and when he was in the midst of winning the Elite Series event at Bull Shoals without one.
Christie said he preferred tournaments that didn't permit them, but added, "If you can use one, you better, or you're going to get your teeth kicked in."
