Outdoor writer/broadcaster Wade Bourne has covered sportfishing for more than 30 years in national magazines, radio and TV.

Football jigs are the perfect tool for efficiently covering more water and catching lots of hungry, summertime bass.

Football jigs are so-named because of their shape: round in the middle and pointed on both ends like…. a football! This bait’s eye is front and center, while the hook extends out back center of the body with the point turned up. This jig is typically dressed with a soft plastic craw worm or critter lure.

Mike Whitten and Chip Pillow took first place in the PeanutCraft Lures trail event on Pickwick lake on April 17.  They won with 15.54 pounds using 10, 12 and 15 pound Vicious Fluorocarbon fishing line and soft plastics.  Mike commented, "I was fishing a 5" weightless senko, in 9-12 feet of water, and simply would not have felt the bites without the flouro fishing line." Congrats to Mike and Chip on a great win!