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 ...

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 ...

Starting Saturday, Canadian citizens without a fishing licence can plop their lines in Ontario lakes during Family Fishing Week. They have to obey other fishing regulations, however. The Ministry of ...

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.

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 ...

Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commissioners Leonard Lichvar, standing, passes a five-hook Alabama rig to Commissioner William Sabatose during Tuesday's discussion of lifting Pennsylvania's three-hook ...

Long before forward-facing sonar was the hot button issue in fishing, the Alabama rig was causing waves for many of the same reasons. The ultimate balance of pain versus reward, this divisive bass ...