There have been thousands of creatures imitated by soft plastic lures in the last 60 years, including some that never crawled on the earth, but the original worm shape is still hard to beat for a lot ...

Plastic worms have evolved over the years from the basic nightcrawler-shaped wigglers crafted by inventor Nick Creme in his kitchen in Akron to an array of lures engineered to fit a variety of tactics ...

Although bass season is now in full swing, heavy rains last week made the Juniata River a bit high and muddy for good smallmouth fishing. That situation shifted my focus from river smallmouths to lake ...

The plastic worm ranks among the deadliest and most versatile lures any angler can cast for bass. Patent records reveal that as early as the 1860s artificial worms were made from the rubber compounds ...

Rubber fish lures can be secured to your hook with O-rings, which help prevent fish from unnecessarily ingesting the lure, or the rubber worm ending up on the lake or riverbed. Credit: Courtesy of the ...