the soft plastic stick bait. It’s not flashy, it’s not complicated, and it doesn’t need to be. This lure gets bites when others don’t, whether you’re fishing clear water, heavy cover ...

Whitaker also listed a Texas-rigged stick bait with a 5/16 ounce weight as his other key lure. Three competitors credited some form of a Texas-rigged craw or creature bait. Their setups ranged ...

but it seems that most bass anglers I know have two or three techniques and baits that they lean on when the bite gets tough. For me, a Neko rig with a soft plastic stick bait is one of those ...