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Cover reading "Weightless fluke" with a Fluke Frenzy soft bait in Night Fury
Rigging & Knots

Fishing a fluke weightless

No weight, no jighead. Just the bait and a hook, falling on a slack line.

6 min
· 8 steps
Cover reading "The Texas rig" with a Bomba Craw soft bait in Water Yer Melon
Rigging & Knots

The Texas rig, start to finish

Weight, hook, bait, and the small choice at each step that decides whether you come through cover or hang up in it.

8 min
· 8 steps
Cover reading "Palomar knot" beside hands tying line to a hook
Rigging & Knots

Tie a palomar knot that holds

The knot most people tie wrong on the first pass, and the one thing that fixes it.

5 min
· 8 steps
Glossary: Action
Glossary

What “action” actually means

Thumping, gliding, quivering. Plain definitions for the words on the back of the pack.

3 min
Glossary: Weedless
Glossary

Weedless

A hook rigged so the point is covered, letting the bait travel through cover instead of collecting it.

3 min
Glossary: Tag end
Glossary

Tag end

The short piece of line left over after a knot, before you trim it.

3 min
Glossary: Gap
Glossary

Gap

The distance between a hook's point and its shank. It decides what size bait the hook can handle.

3 min
Glossary: Texas rig
Glossary

Texas rig

A bullet weight above a weedless-rigged soft plastic. The default way to fish plastics in cover.

3 min
Glossary: Drop shot
Glossary

Drop shot

Weight on the bottom, bait suspended above it on a tag end. Built for holding a bait in one place.

3 min