 Well in this week's fishing tip, Ray and Mandy will go over a few useful rigs to help you catch some bass. Today we're going to talk about two different rigs that are very, very popular for people who fish bass. The first one is a Carolina rig and I've demonstrated this with sinkers much bigger than I would normally use, but just to give you an idea how to do this. But this is a very, very effective technique for people who are fishing open areas away from the vegetation probably. It's not a great thing for getting through vegetation. I'd say out on the outer edges of vegetation and in wider areas, cloudy days, this can be a very effective technique for fishing bass. And basically I have a bead in the front and I have a bullet sinker and then I have a bead in the back. And when these were originally developed those beads were actually made out of glass, so when they hit bottom and hit rocks they made a different sound. Then I have like a short leader and then I have a bass hook on the bottom and I have, in this case, it's just like an imitation crawdad. And you just pull this so you can cast it or you control with it. It's a very effective way of catching bass and it's called a Carolina rig. And Mandy's going to talk about a Texas rig. Absolutely. Texas rigs are actually my bread and butter for bass fishing. Here again, obviously just for your guys' sight, a bullet sinker, much larger than I'd normally use. A couple of beads underneath that and directly adjacent, you know, anywhere from a three or four, a five-out hook, tipped with your favorite plastic. And with that being said, too, you can use crickets, you can use packas, you can even use different kinds of worms on these. And you can also pin these. And when I say pin, see how this slides up and down? So when you cast this and you jig this, this action comes up and down with the weight coming up and back and forth. If you don't want that, you can simply peg it with a little piece of rubber. We also have a Minnesota rig and we're not going to talk about it today, but it looks like this. We'll do that for another show. For Lakeland News, I'm Ray Gildow with the Niswa Guides League. And I'm Mandy Erick, the bass and biologist. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.