In-line spinners, spoons, and hardbaits get all the love in the trout game, and rightfully so. These lures have been punishing browns, rainbows, and brookies for many decades. As the old adage goes, ...

Soft plastic lures are mainstays for catching bass 12 months out of the year, and the angler who doesn’t have a good selection of the best producers in proven colors—and an ample supply of the hot one ...

As an avid outdoorsman with more than 17 years in the hunting and fishing retail industry, Brad Olson knows a thing or two about having fun and selling fun to others. So, when Olson, who worked at ...

An interdisciplinary research team has demonstrated in their new study that harmful phthalates and endocrine disruptors are released from common soft plastic baits. Soft plastic lures are increasingly ...

Anya Phelan does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

I love to catch bass no matter which lure I use. But there still has to be a best way, right? On my way up to a recent Northwoods bass fishing week, a friend asked if there was some specific bite I ...

After the collapse of soft plastic recycling program REDcycle nearly three years ago, it's been almost impossible for individuals to recycle soft plastics in Australia. But supermarkets and councils ...

Inspiration strikes whenever, wherever and however it chooses. It found me elbows deep in large bins overflowing with soft-plastic baits. I had spent an afternoon sorting them into piles, each ...

The Taiwanese equipment company Polystar has introduced the Repro-One, its newest piece of equipment that is designed to process both soft and rigid plastics. Polystar says Repro-One integrates a ...

Bhavna Middha receives funding from the Australian Research Council's Discovery Early Career Researcher Award programme. Ralph Horne receives funding from the Australian Research Council, Kingston and ...

Plastics can be hard, plastics can be soft, but can plastics be both at the same time? Scientists at the University of Texas at Austin have been exploring this question and produced a first-of-a-kind ...