After years of fishing for stream smallmouths with ultralight baitcasting gear, I’ve gone back to a light-action spinning rig. The spinning rig is more versatile and more effective.

Some crappie drop-shotters rig leaders with two, three, or more baits, which works well when trying to pinpoint schools of suspended fish—especially on creek-channel ledges near deep humps. To ...

HARMON - Crooked Creek lives up to its name with a constant topography of tight twists and turns along a shallow course strewn with low-hanging limbs, intruding trees and other "gotchas." ...

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 ...

It took some time to find one rod and reel, which happens to be my favorite creek fishing rig. It wasn't easy. The rod is dark blue and the reel is black, with a gold-tipped spool and orange line.

I've made the trek to try my flies on Lower Fish Creek on numerous occasions, and I ... One of my favorite setups for late-spring action is a tandem rig with a size 20 green-and-white Emerger ...

He absolutely smashed the blade bait bite with Capt. Barry Schultz of Lockport, and they caught fish using the A-rig. Finding bait was key. Where there was bait, there were fish – and big ones.