an essential first lesson for beginners is to master a few essential fishing rigs that use soft baits—whether they’re worms, crawfish, tube baits, or creature baits. Some soft baits come ...

The standard Ned rig is a mushroom jig head paired with a 3-inch stick bait. While you can thread practically any soft plastic lure onto the jig head, there’s something special about this simple rig’s ...

A Ned rig is a near-nothing bait composed of a small soft-plastic lure rigged on a jig head. And yet if you had to coax a bite from a bass anytime, anywhere, a Ned rig might very well be your best ...

Summer time bass fishing is something everyone loves! In this video, I use my favorite lures for summer pond hopping. The ...

You can fish everything from classic ribbon-tail worms to creature baits on a Texas rig. Photo by Derek Horner The standard Texas rig consists of a bullet weight and an EWG hook with a soft plastic ...

However, people often overlook the importance of a soft leader: A fish will not feel a soft leader nearly as much after it has eaten the bait. I’m really not concerned about the need to use ...

Soft rubber minnows or curly-tail grubs fished on lead jig ... But it takes both angling and bait-rigging skills to catch billfish consistently on dead natural baits. The skills needed for rigging ...

Kurt Mazurek Whether you’re an experienced angler or a novice, the soft stick bait caters to all skill levels. Its simple design supports various rigging options to match a wide range of fishing ...

If there was one soft-plastic bait a bass angler could stock their tackle tray with, it should be a Texas- or Carolina-rig. But, which specific bait would suffice for all applications? After ...

Recent Classic Champ Easton Fothergill credited a Strike King KVD Perfect Shad Soft Jerkbait (again ... field that a drop shot worm rig was mentioned as a key bait at Lake Hartwell.