To create a wacky worm rig, tie on a short-shanked 1/0 or 2/0 hook. Take a straight-tailed 4- or 5-inch plastic worm and bend it in half, then insert the hook through the center of the worm.

It is, without question, the weirdest-looking lure we use to catch striped bass, but it is also one of the most effective.The tube-and-worm rig is a length of colored surgical tube, typically 18 ...

Texas Rigs can also be fished weight-free when targeting weed edges. The weight of the hook and plastic is plenty to cast with, and bass often can’t resist a slowly sinking worm or crayfish ...

Doug Gilley, winner of the Super BASS III tournament, was amazed. In the three years he has been fishing with the odd-looking plastic worm rig known as the Do-Nothing Worm, he has caught an array o… ...

This week's fishing tip breaks with tradition. Bassmaster veteran Tom Hamlin says rigging your worm sideways will show down the bait in the water which may land you a big bass this spring ...

CNY Outdoors; Lafayette man gets his share of Skaneateles Lake rainbows using worm/marshmallow rig. Published: ; Nov. 02, 2011, 4:10 p.m.

IT SOUNDED like a strange rig, but Darrell Beck tried it anyway at the urging of San Rafael baitmaster Keith Fraser. The Concord man hooked up a live shiner on a three-way rig and used a two-ounce … ...