How the Carolina rig works The Carolina rig is made to fish a plastic bait just off the bottom-right where bass do a lot of their feeding. Unlike the Texas rig, it works by separating your sinker ...

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Fishing guide Ben Matsubu says crappie are good in 10 to 20 feet using blue ice jigs around brush piles and old lay downs.

Water level is three inches low and fairly clear to stained. Water temp in the upper 70s, low 80s.

Fishing guide Stanley Gresham says bass are fair to good in skinny water using Texas rig plastics, weightless senko, flukes and trick worms. A few hitting topwater early and under cloudy skies. Deeper ...