The Alabama bass-fishing rig — which already is illegal in Minnesota — took another hit Thursday when the Walmart FLW tournament tour announced the controversial lure would not be allowed for use by ...

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 ...

The Alabama rig gained national attention when Paul Elias won an FLW tournament last year on Lake Guntersville with a total of 102 pounds of bass. The rig not only won him the tournament, but he had ...

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." ...

After Andy Poss, of Muscle Shoals, invented the Alabama Rig in 2010 and bass pro Paul Elias won a major FLW event with it at Guntersville in 2011, many anglers predicted the rig would be the end of ...

January is when many of Lake Norman’s hybrid striped bass, white perch and spotted bass move from the creeks to the main river channel. Add some larger-than-normal 9- to 10-pound striped bass and it ...

It was during an autumn largemouth bass foray when I saw an angler break the law — the Illinois law, that is. I’d just caught my fourth bass of the session using a pre-rigged Carolina plastic worm.

Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commissioners Leonard Lichvar, standing, passes a five-hook Alabama rig to Commissioner William Sabatose during Tuesday's discussion of lifting Pennsylvania's three-hook ...