When Weather Warms, Work The Wacky

This is it, ladies and gentlemen. In most of the country, the weather is beginning to warm, the days are becoming longer, and the bass are moving up to spawn.

The resulting combination could give you the perfect balance of mild weather, warm water and shallow, hungry bass that you can usually spot with the naked eye. To catch them, Elite Series veteran Kelley Jaye turns to the wacky rig. How he fishes it may surprise you.

“It started with a Slug-Go, believe it or not,” Jaye says. “Remember them? For me, it started there, probably 20 years ago, before the guys from Florida came up and really exposed what they were doing with worms.” These