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 ...

Under the right conditions, these traditional bass and muskie baits will catch way more species than you ever imagined.

Soft Plastic Stick Bait – Wacky-Rig and Texas-Rig Success ... rigged stick bait with a 5/16 ounce weight as his other key lure. Three competitors credited some form of a Texas-rigged craw ...

The weight gets the lure to the bottom ... somewhere in the 2- to 3-foot range works best. Step 6: Rig a soft-plastic bait to the hook. Insert the hook point into the nose of the soft-plastic ...