Oliver Ngy's Weightless Soft Plastic Jerkbait Hack

Best Soft Plastic Lures for Walleye

I’d be lying if I said I didn’t like live bait. In today’s day and age, however, you would have to crazy to not have a good sampling of soft plastic lures in your walleye boxes. Plastics open a diverse set of options when compared to live bait. We will forgo the obvious holdups that live bait can be expensive, difficult to keep alive, let alone challenging to keep on a hook, and instead focus on why plastics deserve a place in your arsenal of...

The Greatest Soft Plastic Lure of All Time

The wacky-rigged Senko worm operates as a hack to bass ecology, a virus in the network, a glitch in the matrix. They’re mesmerized by it. If you ever get a chance to land one near a visible bass without spooking it, you’ll see what I mean. They just can’t help themselves but to go have a look. And then often, aw, hell, gotta try a bite. Craziest thing is: it doesn’t look like anything in nature. Leeches don’t flex at the middle and scoot sideways...

Video: Oliver Ngy's Weightless Soft Plastic Jerkbait Hack

One of the greatest things about bass fishing is how it rewards creativity. Soft-plastic jerkbaits have been in production and use forever, but rarely do you see them fished like this. My friend and cameraman Parker Wright started rigging them weightless with an exposed hook and we had a blast using this fun and simple method to catch some nice largemouth bass. Also known as flukes, these versatile baitfish patterns come in a plethora of shapes...