When it comes to catching large numbers of panfish, it’s impossible to beat a chunk of nightcrawler (or maybe a cricket) hanging under a bobber. But when you’re throwing live bait for panfish, you’re ...

A Ned rig is a near-nothing bait composed of a small soft-plastic lure rigged on a jig head. And yet if you had to coax a bite from a bass anytime, anywhere, a Ned rig might very well be your best bet ...

The Ned Rig technique involves fishing a small plastic bait on a small jig when chasing bass. Here in the northern reaches of the country, we have been using plastic worms of various shapes on small ...

There's a little lure that's getting big results at Beaver Lake -- the Ned rig. It isn't much to look at, with its disc-shaped jig head and small hook that's threaded with the stub of soft plastic the ...

If you’ve been paying attention for the past month or so, one fishing setup keeps popping up in a lot of the columns and stories I’ve been writing: the Ned Rig. Anglers have been having a great amount ...

When my Missouri brother and his wife decided to spend summers in Minnesota to avoid the heat and humidity in their home state, I tried to tell him about a relatively new system I had been using to ...

The fishing industry’s largest expo of new products is taking a very different approach this year, but the excitement to see the newest offerings from the sport’s top companies may be at an all-time ...