A Ned rig is a near-nothing bait composed of a small soft-plastic lure rigged on a jig head. And yet if you had to coax a bite from a bass anytime, anywhere, a Ned rig might very well be your best ...

In the most basic terms, a Carolina rig consists of a weight, a bead, a swivel, leader, hook, and soft-plastic lure, and the rig is designed to run deep to target bass along the bottom of a fishery.

“In that cold water, they just wanted that bait moving slowly.” Jake Whitaker used a soft plastic stick bait rigged two ways for his tenth-place finish. / B.A.S.S. | Dalton Tumblin Tenth-place ...