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 bet ...

When learning how to fish for bass, 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 ...

I slowly raised my rod tip, feeling the bullet weight inch across the bottom until my plastic worm rested against the ruins of a drowned willow tree. As I lowered my rod tip and reeled in the slack, I ...

This is one of the hotter rigs in bass fishing right now. A good one to learn if you haven't. A nail weight, O-ring, hook and straight tail plastic is all you need to get started Neko rigging. The ...

Long before forward-facing sonar was the hot button issue in fishing, the Alabama rig was causing waves for many of the same ...

When it comes to catching large numbers of panfish, it’s impossible to beat a chunk of nightcrawler (or maybe a cricket) hanging under a bobber. But when you’re throwing live bait for panfish, you’re ...

Fishing line is easily one of the most overlooked aspects of putting together a quality bass-catching rig. Most anglers figure out what kind of bait they want to throw, grab their rod, and go to ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. -- Terms such as "Texas-rigged worm," "Carolina-rigged lizard" or "wacky rig" are part of a bass angler's everyday lexicon. But to a beginner, the experienced anglers might as well be ...

Soft plastic lures are versatile for catching bass, partly because of the variety of ways you can rig them. Proper rigging style depends on the presentation you desire. That often depends on the type ...

Since the popularization of forward-facing sonar, many bass anglers have found success using new ways to fish old techniques. But, it should be no surprise that a few new techniques have evolved along ...

The Ned Rig technique involves fishing a small plastic bait on a small jig when chasing bass. Here in the northern reaches of the country, we have been using plastic worms of various shapes on small ...

Attaching a plastic stick bait to a hook in the most cartoonishly-simple way possible may seem like a goofy idea but, wacky or not, it’s proven tremendously effective in coaxing finicky bass to bite.