When the fishing turns summertime tough, bass anglers get downright wacky. Plastic worms may catch more black bass during summer than any other lure. There are all kinds of ways to rig them. One that ...

Last week we talked about drop shotting plastic baits, and now we will deal with the technique that’s become known as “wacky” worms. These are certainly not new methods. They’ve been around for a ...

WACKY WORM Fourteen years ago, the late Mike Ciccolella took me to the shoreline in front of the Lake Lonely Boat Livery where he worked, handed me a rod with a stick-like plastic worm with the hook ...

In a never-ending quest to catch more and bigger fish, anglers have learned to embrace a multitude of baits and techniques. We've learned to flip and pitch, cast monstrous swimbaits and even rig a ...

I was asked that while hanging out in the local tackle shop recently. With all the talk about plastic baits like the wacky worm, Texas-rigged worms, spider grubs, jig n’ pig, swim baits, plastic frogs ...