Soft plastic trailers can be used with a wide range of skirted baits like spinnerbaits, ChatterBaits, jigs, and buzzbaits. The best trailer for a spinnerbait, though, is the Z-Man Elaztech Split ...

Soft plastic baits for bass have the most realistic profiles, textures, and actions of any of the best bass lures. That makes them irresistible to bass, whether they’re tucked in heavy cover ...

One of my favorite methods of fishing is with "soft baits." We commonly refer to them as soft plastic baits, but manufacturers now use a wide variety of materials in the making of these popular lures.

Tube baits are molded soft plastic creations. They essentially are hollow through the length of their bodies, with a closed leading end. The tail portion of the tube bait is shredded or molded ...

My fishing partner said that we would be using jigs tipped with plastic tails. I had used plastic for walleyes in the past with success, but always when the water was warmer.

There are situations when plastic baits will produce as many walleyes as live bait, sometimes more, and will be much easier to use. I remember my first venture into the world of plastic for walleyes.

Plastic was less expensive to make, less labor intensive and a lot more uniform. Plug fishing with the new plastic lures cropped up in every type of fishing from bass and pickerel fishing to pike ...

Milliken Fishing shows you how to make custom soft plastic lures from scratch. S.F. residents had parked in their driveways for years. Then someone started snitching ...

Springfield, Mo.-based fishing and hunting gear supplier Lew's Holdings Corp. reeled in a big one — the manufacturer of at least 70 percent of all soft plastic bait made in the U.S. — with its ...

The bait is threaded on to the hook in the same manner as with a Texas rig, but the bullet weight is not used. Instead, slide the bullet weight on to the main line, and add a small plastic bead ...

Plastic baits don’t move by themselves like live bait does: You need to provide the action. You’ve got to keep the stuff hopping or swimming across the bottom or through the water.