Every heard of the Alabama Rig? Truthfully, I hadn’t until this week. The contraption came to my attention when B.A.S.S. put out a press release announcing the lure type would be banned from ...

The Alabama Rig has been a very effective and controversial device in the bass fishing world since it's introduction by Andy Doss and Mann's Bait Company in early 2011. The Alabama Rig is not a lure ...

The Alabama rig has taken the fishing world by storm and stirred up considerable controversy at the same time. The umbrella rig features up to five baits suspended on wires, 6-8 inches in length, ...

Paul Elias put the Alabama Rig in the bass fishing spotlight with a big tournament victory last October on Alabama's Lake Guntersville. Now everyone wants to cast the multi-hooked rig, but you'll have ...

What do you get when you take a hard bait body, add a tie-in point to its front end, a five-arm wire harness to its back end, then attach a swivel at the end of each arm? Your mental picture might ...

A couple of weeks ago in this column, we talked about MassWildlife's ruling on the use of the Alabama rig for freshwater fishing. The rig is a smaller freshwater version of the heavier saltwater ...

The first time Terry Knight went to a dock at Clear Lake and cast a new fishing rig that was supposed to "catch the big ones," he laughed and said "it looked like five minnows swimming right at me." ...

A hot, new trend called the umbrella rig could put more fish in your boat by putting more lures in the water. It’s all about playing the odds and catering to the voracious tendencies of fish like ...

Like the fish they target, bass anglers are a predictable species. Put something in front of them they haven’t seen before, something new and innovative, and they can’t help but bite. Alabama rigs, ...

Largemouth bass are opportunistic feeders. Everything is on the menu for these aggressive fish, from crustaceans to worms to frogs to mice. I even once hand-fed a piece of fried chicken to a bass.