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Learn how to rig and fish this popular finesse presentation for both smallmouth and largemouth bass. Here's everything you need to know about a wacky rig.

And we bridle all our baits.” The team’s rigging begins with a VMC 5/0 circle hook that’s snelled to 40-pound-test fluorocarbon leader, although the team will drop down to 30-pound-test leaders on ...

A wacky rig one of the most effective bass fishing techniques. Here's everything you need to know to rig it and fish it effectively.

This Japanese technique is part finesse, part power fishing. Here's how to set up the free rig and fish it properly.

I fish 200 yards up-current of the rig, fishing only two rods at a time. Instead of bridling the baits the conventional way, Team Supreme uses the Bridle-Buddy: a small dart that pivots 90 degrees and ...

The Tokyo rig may be the hottest soft-­plastic presentation in stateside bass fishing right now, but it’s not new. Leadered punch-shot rigs have been a thing in Japan for a while. It wasn’t ...

The micro Ned rig will put big bluegills and and all sorts of bass in the boat. Here's how to rig and fish one.

“The Ned rig has a certain low profile, size and sensitivity that really works in the Niagara River,” says the operator of the Brookdog Fishing Company.

Small six-lure bait-catching rigs are not new, but there is a Japanese version on the market that guides say outfishes all the others. It is the Hayabusa Sabiki, which consists of six tiny jigs ...