How to Fish a Carolina Rig
The Carolina rig is a slow, bottom-dragging setup that covers big offshore flats and points better than almost anything else. How to tie it, how long to make the leader, the right weight for your depth, and the retrieve that separates feeling bites from feeling rocks.
How to Fish a Swimbait
A swimbait catches fish by being boring in the right way - steady, slow, and the size of what the fish is already eating. How to pick between paddle tails, jointed baits and glide baits, the retrieve speeds that matter by season, and why most beginners fish them far too fast.
How to Fish a Jerkbait
The jerkbait is a cold-water specialist that catches fish on the pause, not the jerk. How to cadence it by water temperature, the rod and line setup that matters, why slack-line twitches beat hard yanks, and how to tune a bait so it truly suspends.
How to Fish a Spinnerbait
A spinnerbait catches fish because it can be reeled straight through cover that would foul any other lure. Match the blade to the water clarity, keep the retrieve slow enough to feel the thump, and drive it into wood rather than around it.
How to Fish Docks
The short answer: docks are shade, structure and food in one package, and most anglers fish the wrong 90 percent of them. Here is how to rank a dock before you cast, and how to get a bait into the part that actually holds fish.
How to Fish a Crankbait
A crankbait works when it hits something. Pick a lure that dives 30-60cm deeper than the cover you are fishing, grind it into rock and wood, and let the deflection trigger the strike.
How to Fish a Texas Rig
The short answer: a Texas rig is a weedless soft-plastic setup - bullet weight, hook, worm - that you drag and hop slowly along the bottom through cover most lures cannot touch. Here is how to tie it, weight it and work it.