, an essential first lesson for beginners is to master a few essential fishing rigs that use soft baits—whether they’re worms, crawfish, tube baits, or creature baits. Some soft baits come already ...

Fishing is good for black bass, striped bass and crappie. James Whittle at Hook, Line and Sinker in Rogers said black bass are prowling shallow water. Try Alabama rigs, jerk baits, crawdad-colored ...