The first time Terry Knight went to a dock at Clear Lake and cast a new fishing rig that was supposed to "catch the big ones," he laughed and said "it looked like five minnows swimming right at me." ...

The most talked about largemouth and smallmouth bass fishing lure — the A-rig — quietly has earned space in the tackle boxes of veteran Smith Mountain guide Dale Wilson. Just so everyone knows what we ...

It was only a matter of time before a fly angler brought the Alabama Rig of conventional bass fishing into the world of fly fishing. The Alabama Rig is a popular system or "lure" that mimics a small ...

When water temperatures drop and schools of shad grow scarce, bass enthusiasts targeting the heaviest fish switch to an umbrella rig that imitates a small cloud of shad to turn the bite on. The best ...

BILL: I guess the term “sport” is in the eye of the beholder. Certainly use of this type of rig (see last week’s Cochran column on the Alabama rig) is not sport when it comes to bass fishing. There ...