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 ...

The IDNR legal department said the Alabama Rig is illegal on lakes with regulations that limit each angler to two rods with no more than two hooks or lures per line. The law, which is in place on ...

He remembers when the Alabama rig first came out and It took the fishing world by storm. The rig, which allowed fishermen to imitate a small school of baitfish by presenting several swimbaits on ...

Photo courtesy Grady Codd “I tossed a 5-lure Alabama rig into the area, started a retrieve and — wham — got a hit from a good fish, hooked it, and continued reeling. Then I got another hit, then a ...

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.

Bass can be caught 30 to 70 feet deep with a drop-shot rig or jigging spoon. Shallower fish can be caught with crawdad-colored crank baits. Fish where rock transitions to gravel.

A video shared to Instagram shows Texas angler Grady Codd catching three 6-plus-pound largemouth bass on one cast. Codd was using a five-lure Alabama rig and fishing on Mexico's famed Lake El Salto.