Properly rigging a ballyhoo plug can oftentimes help encourage bites from leery bottom species. Learn how to do it right.

The entire rig is shortened to an easily cast length ... with the most popular being 3- to 4-inch twistertail grubs, ringworms, and paddle-tail swimbaits, all in minnow-imitating color patterns.

Billy says, “and use a fish-finder or Carolina rig with the lightest weight to ... If you’re fishing artificial, use 3½-inch paddle tails in the bone or silver color." This mimics the ...

Autumn and winter are by far the best times to target big perch and, while trotting or legering lobworms continues to be a ...

Finding hints of perch and getting itchy for ice fishing lead this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report. Sam Eble emailed the photo at the top two weeks ago, then I screwed up and lost track of ...

My preferred method of rigging is with a shaky head to get my ... I prefer fishing a paddle tail swimbait to mimic a fleeing baitfish but crawfish trailers work too. If the fish are lethargic ...

Quite a few of the bass caught within the last couple of days were taken on artificials, such as paddle tails, Mag Darters and AVA lures. Grumpy's Tackle in Seaside Park reported a striped bass ...

Climb to the rig’s upper level and shoot the ... Slide down, loot the chest, and release the tail. Board the boat below and paddle to the creature’s eye. Next to the Draugr Hole is one of ...

The ability to rig soft plastics weedlessly opens up all kinds of territory ... and expect all manner of inshore game fish strikes. Soft plastic paddle tails and swimtails imitate baitfish. They are ...

He used a catfish rig and three nightcrawlers to catch the ... “I caught it on my own custom made jigs and a paddle tail,” Olson writes. Aaron Lefor, who lives near Greenbush, Minnesota ...