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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

While some of those baits may work in certain situations, oftentimes they’re more than you need. A wacky rig is the exact opposite. Its simplicity makes it arguably the most effective 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

But then this new technique of just rigging it on a on a jig head ... or even as a chatter bait trailer, this innovative new soft bait does its all. The Drip Minnow is available in 14 ultra ...

Swimming small hand tied jigs or small soft plastics can fool some of ... Bass are good on natural colored Texas rigged creature baits and wacky rigs. All three phases of the spawn are occurring ...

Fishing darker-colored nymphs should ... a great rig to run is a three-fly rig that consists of wet flies or soft-hackled flies. Swing the rig through riffles and runs. Casting down and across ...