Ethan Albright with a rainbow trout he caught on one of his bio lures; a close-up of the lures fresh out of a mold. “I haven’t been able to get out on the boat yet to catch bass with them, but we did ...

A Ned rig is a near-nothing bait composed of a small soft-plastic lure rigged on a jig head. And yet if you had to coax a bite from a bass anytime, anywhere, a Ned rig might very well be your best bet ...