the soft plastic stick bait. It’s not flashy, it’s not complicated, and it doesn’t need to be. This lure gets bites when others don’t, whether you’re fishing clear water, heavy cover ...

The standard Ned rig is a mushroom jig head paired with a 3-inch stick bait. While you can thread practically any soft plastic lure onto the jig head, there’s something special about this simple rig’s ...

I was looking at some pictures on my phone last week and noticed that I caught some very nice walleye on Lake Erie on March 4 ...

Whitaker also listed a Texas-rigged stick bait with a 5/16 ounce weight as his other key lure. Three competitors credited some form of a Texas-rigged craw or creature bait. Their setups ranged ...

Step 2: Select a soft plastic lure. There are hundreds of options ... that looks like the tail end of a normal soft plastic stick bait still works really well. Step 3: Place the soft-plastic ...