Good luck with it! I am intrigued by whatever it is your fishin with though
give that bama rig another chance David, Gotta be the fish catchenest thing I ever bought. But it will tire yer butt out. We dont have shad up here so we use smaller baits on em but it do work when them smallies are suspended over something like ledges or rock piles.
I use to feel the same about the A-rig, but now I seem to catch them all the time on it.
problem here is that in MO you can only have 3 hooks, and in KS it's worse, only 2 hooks, sucks!