the soft plastic stick bait. It’s not flashy, it’s not complicated, and it doesn’t need to be. This lure gets bites when others don’t, whether you’re fishing clear water, heavy cover ...

Whitaker also listed a Texas-rigged stick bait with a 5/16 ounce weight as his other key lure. Three competitors credited some form of a Texas-rigged craw or creature bait. Their setups ranged ...

B.A.S.S. Three competitors included soft plastic stick baits in their plan—two wacky-rigged weightless and one Texas-rigged. This is the other lure that was an exclusive for one of the anglers.