Are umbrella rigs legal in New Hampshire?



Are umbrella rigs legal in New Hampshire?

A castable umbrella rig is not a lure but an apparatus used for casting multiple lures at once, making any lure/weight/dummy lure combination wholly illegal in New Hampshire. Are umbrella rigs allowed in tournaments?

Is the Alabama rig illegal in the US?

Other states restricting rigs to three hooks or fewer include Colorado, Ohio, Rhode Island, Washington, California, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Utah. Indiana allows an angler to fish no more than two hooks or two artificial baits or harnesses per line, which would seem to make the Alabama rig illegal.

How many hooks are allowed on a fishing rig in Alabama?

To comply with the state law, some anglers are setting up their Alabama rigs with three lures with hooks and two lure bodies without hooks that serve as decoys. Other states restricting rigs to three hooks or fewer include Colorado, Ohio, Rhode Island, Washington, California, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Utah.

What is an umbrella rig?

The umbrella rig, or Alabama rig or A-rig, is a fishing device with several wire “arms,” blades, hooks, and dummy baits extending from a central point. Most Alabama rigs consist of five wires. They normally have four equally distanced outer wires and one central, longer wire. There are other rig configurations, though.