The author caught this smallmouth bass on a Ned rig while fishing an offshore rock pile. The standard Ned rig is a mushroom jig head paired with a 3-inch stick bait. While you can thread practically ...

There’s no indication that Shakespeare’s Juliet was into bass fishing, but her famous line: “A rose by any other name, would smell as sweet,” applies perfectly to one of the sport’s ...

Attached to the end of each of the bendable wires is a snap swivel, allowing you to thread on a jig head adorned with your favorite soft plastic swimbait. Once you’ve repeated that process with all of ...

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 ...