, an essential first lesson for beginners is to master a few essential fishing rigs that use soft baits—whether they’re worms, crawfish, tube baits, or creature baits. Some soft baits come already ...

Anglers should have three lures handy to catch black bass -- jerk baits, crawdad colored crank baits and Alabama rigs. That's the word from Reese Jones at Hook, Line and Sinker in Rogers. Those lures ...

Striped bass are biting live bait and lures on the south end of the lake. Reese Jones at Hook, Line and Sinker in Rogers said stripers are biting live shad, brood minnows and Alabama rigs. Stripers ...

Crappie and striped bass are biting on the south half of the lake. Reese Jones at Hook, Line and Sinker in Rogers said crappie can be caught with minnows or jigs 20 to 25 feet deep around brush. A jig ...