The Alabama Rig has been a very effective and controversial device in the bass fishing world since it's introduction by Andy Doss and Mann's Bait Company in early 2011. The Alabama Rig is not a lure ...

Why dangle one minnow in front of a crappie's nose when you can jiggle a whole school of them? That's the idea behind the spider rig, a system that gets crappie to bite at Beaver Lake all year long. A ...

Some 20 years ago, on any given summer day, you would've found me along the bank of a Virginia farm pond or waist-deep in the James River. More than likely, my T-shirt was balled up in the back of my ...

Slab crappies are meat eaters—sure enough minnow munchers. They take artificials well at times, especially jigs—but big crappie will turn their noses at even the best of the best crappie lures.

There is a plastic worm rig that's so outlandish its creators just had to call it the "wacky worm." It looks silly, yet works like a charm for catching largemouth bass. It has become the secret go-to ...

There’s no rigging style bass anglers rely on more than the classic Texas rig, and the reason for this is simple: Texas rig fishing for bass is both incredibly effective and versatile. A Texas rig ...

There's more than one way to catch crappie on a hot summer day on Beaver Lake. Payton and Tiffany Usey have three tricks up their sleeves for enticing crappie when the lake is warm as bath water and ...

The free rig is a cross between the ever-popular Texas rig and the seemingly forgotten Carolina rig. As far as bass fishing techniques go, it doesn’t get much hype, but occasionally sees some ...