When you rig it right and cast it out, the result is a tantalizing worm or creature bait bouncing along the bottom, right where the fish are. Step 1: Slide the weight onto your mainline.

but these days folks are Texas-rigging all sorts of soft-plastics from stickbaits and finesse worms to swimbaits and creature baits of every description. Q: When should you fish a Texas Rig?

Joe Cermele It’s hard to make the argument that catching nightcrawlers for bait is going to save you tons of cash, unless, of course, you’re a walleye charter captain who buys them by the pound for a ...

The hair rig was originally invented for big carp, but nowadays it’s extremely popular in match and pleasure fishing too. The ...

In freshwater lakes across the land, baitfish such as live shiners have displaced the worm as the go-to bait. But the worm ...

Grumpy's Tackle in Seaside Park weighed in a very large white perch, as far as white perch go. The fish moved the scale down ...

The Paramount party boat reported catches of ling and pollock while wreck fishing, but no cod ... dock finally got a few bites on the worm rigs. Tim Rizzuto at Fisherman's Den said two reported ...