Soft Plastics

Ask ten pike anglers how to rig soft plastics for pike and you’ll get eleven opinions, half a dozen contradictions, and at least one story about the “one that got off because the jig head was too light.” That’s not because soft plastic rigging is complicated — it genuinely isn’t — it’s because most anglers … Read more

There’s a particular kind of silence right before a pike hits a shad. The rod tip’s doing nothing, the retrieve is lazy, and then the water just… opens. Soft plastic lures for pike are the reason so many UK anglers have quietly binned their box of hard jerkbaits and gone all-in on rubber. They’re cheap … Read more