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.

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 ...

You can still catch a bunch of bass on the umbrella rig even if your state only allows the use of a single hook. Just follow this simple guidance. Posted on 2/12/2016 (1:09) ...

Fishing umbrella rigs in shallow water pushes gear and technique to the limit. Big fish respond violently when the rig passes through the right zone. Positioning and retrieve speed matter more than ...

Umbrella rigs — aka Alabama rigs or A-rigs, for short — are all the rage with bass fishermen, but they're proving an option for other game fish as well. The rig, which is designed to trail a number of ...

UNION HALL - Rex Smith must be crazy. Why else would this man, whom I consider a good friend, call me Tuesday afternoon to say he was catching the heck out of stripers at Smith Mountain Lake? "You ...

Last fall, Paul Elias shook the bass fishing industry when he won the FLW Tour Open on Lake Guntersville using the Alabama rig. It has been quite some time since one lure — or maybe I should say five ...

Modification of the umbrella or Alabama rig is legal in Ohio if used as depicted by these three photos taken from the Ohio Division of Wildlife website. They include a rig (left) with only three wires ...

The Alabama bass-fishing rig — which already is illegal in Minnesota — took another hit Thursday when the Walmart FLW tournament tour announced the controversial lure would not be allowed for use by ...