A new rig is taking the bass fishing scene by storm. It began in October 2011, when Paul Elias won $100,000 in a FLW fishing tournament held at Lake Guntersville in Alabama. Elias brought 20 bass to ...

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." ...

Inspired by the Alabama Rig’s success, an angler creates a fly fishing version to target bass with incredible results. It was only a matter of time before a fly angler brought the Alabama Rig of ...

After Andy Poss, of Muscle Shoals, invented the Alabama Rig in 2010 and bass pro Paul Elias won a major FLW event with it at Guntersville in 2011, many anglers predicted the rig would be the end of ...

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Long before forward-facing sonar was the hot button issue in fishing, the Alabama rig was causing waves for many of the same reasons. The ultimate balance of pain versus reward, this divisive bass ...

"Biggest tackle item this year has to be the many variations of the Alabama Rig," said Jim Dolly on the floor of the Triple S Dealers Show at Adams Mark Buffalo Wednesday afternoon. The Triple S show ...

BILL: I guess the term “sport” is in the eye of the beholder. Certainly use of this type of rig (see last week’s Cochran column on the Alabama rig) is not sport when it comes to bass fishing. There ...

When water temperatures drop and schools of shad grow scarce, bass enthusiasts targeting the heaviest fish switch to an umbrella rig that imitates a small cloud of shad to turn the bite on. The best ...

Workers were scrapping a decommissioned oil rig in a shipyard along the Mobile River on Wednesday afternoon when the structure caught fire, sending heavy smoke billowing over the city, according to ...

There is a new thing in fishing called an "Alabama rig." It looks like a mobile with bait and you could catch almost a half a dozen fish in one throw. Bassmaster Veteran Tom Hamlin hit pay dirt the ...