It ain't as easy as it looks. That's the message from FLW pro Casey Martin about flinging the notorious umbrella rig, AKA the "Alabama Rig", on TVA lakes. "It can be really effective and catch fish ...

It was during an autumn largemouth bass foray when I saw an angler break the law — the Illinois law, that is. I’d just caught my fourth bass of the session using a pre-rigged Carolina plastic worm.

LITTLE ROCK — But for an auspicious twist of fate, the Alabama Rig might have been called the Arkansas Rig. Brad Wiegmann of Rogers, a fishing guide and a bass tournament competitor, used light ...

What do you get when you take a hard bait body, add a tie-in point to its front end, a five-arm wire harness to its back end, then attach a swivel at the end of each arm? Your mental picture might ...

As we like to catch fish on artificial lures we were amazed last year when the Alabama Rig was introduced to the public. The rig manufactured by Mann's Baits in Eufaula, Alabama is made to catch five ...

After the exceptionally warm winter of 2011-12, a lot of anglers thought the magic was gone from the multi-lure umbrella rig, best known as the Alabama Rig because its use as a freshwater bass rig was ...

Paul Elias put the Alabama Rig in the bass fishing spotlight with a big tournament victory last October on Alabama's Lake Guntersville. Now everyone wants to cast the multi-hooked rig, but you'll have ...

The first time Terry Knight went to a dock on California's Clear Lake and cast a new-to-him fishing rig that was supposed to "catch the big ones," he laughed and said "it looked like five minnows ...

In this Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012 photo, the Alabama Rig is shown on Roseberry Creek in Scottsboro, Ala. "It's the biggest thing to come along in fishing since probably the rod and reel," said Jack ...