Anglers have been using weedless hooks on plastic worms for years, but a new wrinkle is using weedless hooks on surface lures. Terry Terrell of Jacksonville has been catching largemouth bass by ...

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 ...

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.

The traditional saltwater shrimp jigs are anything but weedless. Now, Culprit has a weedless version in its RIPTIDE line of saltwater soft plastic lures. The lure’s body has a narrow cavity that hides ...