Before you rig a soft plastic lure, you need to decide how you want to fish it. In some situations, you will want the lure to fall fast, while in others, you want it to fall slowly. Sometimes you want ...

Soft plastics are the backbone of bass fishing because they can be made to do almost anything: fall straight, glide, crawl, dart, or hover. They also catch fish when bass won’t commit to hard baits, ...

When I was kid we didn’t have soft plastics like those now available. We had “rubber worms,” and that was pretty much it. Oh, there was some variety. There was was the five-inch rubber worm, and the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Finesse techniques catch fish when aggressive moving baits fail to get bites, especially if you’ve created a secret rig that the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Swimbaits will trigger big trout into striking. In-line spinners, spoons, and hardbaits get all the love in the trout game, and ...

Like many hobbies, fishing can be as complicated as we make it. Most trips can be successful with just a few hooks, some worms and a handful of trusty lures. But fishing also provides plenty of ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you like fishing with plastic baits like rubber worms, did you ever wonder how those products are made? A small company in Portage, Cambria County, is producing plastic bait products for sports ...

Springfield, Mo.-based fishing and hunting gear supplier Lew's Holdings Corp. reeled in a big one — the manufacturer of at least 70 percent of all soft plastic bait made in the U.S. — with its ...