Soft plastic baits are great for catching smallmouth, largemouth, and spotted bass. Many soft plastics can be fished weightless or rigged for other effective techniques. But the endless profiles, ...

During more than a dozen fishing trips to lakes and sloughs and other inland waters over the past couple of months, I've seen exactly one snake. That was Tuesday morning, when a broad-banded water ...

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 ...

BEAVER LAKE -- Could be there are more black bass caught on plastic worms during spring and summer than on any other lure. These supple fish-catching worms come in every size, from little 4-inchers to ...

Fishing Forecast Fishing outside weed edges in 12 to 16 feet of water with deep diving crankbaits or rubber worms are good mid-summer fishing methods for largemouth bass. There are still plenty of ...

Innovations often come about by accident. It happened 65 years ago, when Nick Creme, an Akron, Ohio machinist, invented a game-changing fishing lure. Creme decided he was tired of digging for ...

Dustin Hoffman as “The Graduate” received this piece of advice: “Plastics.” Fishing entrepreneurs must have seen the movie and got the message, too. The first plastic worm I ever used was manufactured ...

When it comes to catching black bass, most anglers would rather fool 'em with plastic worms than feed 'em the real thing. Fishermen resurrect supple, soft plastic worms from their tackle boxes as ...

I have always been a fan of plastic worms. They have produced for me when all else failed. Now with the introduction of the scented ones, they are even better. One great feature is the many ways they ...