Need help with weedy places

[Nick94]

in the summer on the lake, its gets really, really weedy on my favorite fishing spot. Im wondering what i could use to exploit this. Any suggestions? anything helps ;D

[Pez]

try weightless plastics(senko, rage tail), texas-rigged you dont want your hook exposed. Or if its mats try a frog or texas-rigged plastics with a tungsten weight to punch through the thick stuff! where do you fish?

[Nick94]

try weightless plastics. where do you fish?

i fish at merill creek. on the right side of the resivoir (spelling sucks haha)

[EastTexasBassin]

Does it form sub-surface grass or surface mats?

For submerged weeds, I like to burn a rattletrap over the top.  Let it fall into the weeds and rip it out every once in a while. 

For surface mats, try working a frog over the top or punch through the holes with a t-rigged plastic and a tungsten flipping weight.

[Nick94]

Does it form sub-surface grass or surface mats?

For submerged weeds, I like to burn a rattletrap over the top. Let it fall into the weeds and rip it out every once in a while.

For surface mats, try working a frog over the top or punch through the holes with a t-rigged plastic and a tungsten flipping weight.

its submerged weeds, that can get quite thick in hot spells.

[roadwarrior]

Swimming Senko or GYCB Kreature:

http://www.bassresource.com/bass_fishing_forums/YaBB.pl?num=1180909581

New for me this year, Rage Tail Smokin' Rooster

which I think has the potential to become my #1

soft plastic! The Space Monkey is also in the running.

8-)

[The Bassinator]

For submerged weeds, I like to burn a rattletrap over the top.  Let it fall into the weeds and rip it out every once in a while.

x2.  I caught a 4lb LM doin that

[Nick94]

Does it form sub-surface grass or surface mats?

For submerged weeds, I like to burn a rattletrap over the top. Let it fall into the weeds and rip it out every once in a while.

For surface mats, try working a frog over the top or punch through the holes with a t-rigged plastic and a tungsten flipping weight.

what color scheme for the rattletraps do you like most? i got a variety of them but i dont want to take the time to experiment (lazy man right here haha ;D)

[jb7725]

texas rig pretty much any plastic that you like size of weight depends on thickness of weeds

[soccplayer07]

4/0 1/8 ounce keel weighted hook w/ RI skinny dipper!!!

[Hammer 4]

Don't rule out a ragetail lizard t rigged..weightless you can swim them over the tops of weeds for some great action. I should say, that the RT lizards have really good swiming action.

[A-Rob]

topwater for largies over heavy cover is awesome/fun.

For penetrating deeper weeds, in my humble opinion, the most hassle-free (weedless) and effective bass catcher is a texas rigged tube with whatever weight needed in bullet sinker form. It is my go to.

the hook will sit against the tube, you don't even need to hide the point back into the plastic. Bass love tubes.

Try black/blue or a realistic green/brown.

[HeavyTackle]

weightless skinny dipper.

13-14inch ribbontail worm.

soft plastic frog.

Yamamoto Kreature or a Reaction Innovations Double wide sweet beaver.

[wormycrm99]

That new yum money hound might help you out.

[TrippyJai]

This is my kind of water we are talking about here. Up here in southern Ontario, most lakes are very weedy.

Sub-surface:

1) weightless senko.

2) a crankbait that will tick the top of the grass, but won't get caught in it.

3) crankbait along the weed lines.

4) fish a rattle trap and rip it free from the weeds (haven't down this yet though)

5) t-rig worms

6) any type of soft plastic swim baits

7) top water

You can do just about anything you can think of.

Mats:

I have no idea.. I wish I can learn how to fish mats, but every time I try I end up catch weeds.

[Nick94]

This is my kind of water we are talking about here. Up here in southern Ontario, most lakes are very weedy.

1) weightless senko.

2) a crankbait that will tick the top of the grass, but won't get caught in it.

3) crankbait along the weed lines.

4) fish a rattle trap and rip it free from the weeds (haven't down this yet though)

5) t-rig worms

6) any type of soft plastic swim baits

7) top water

You can do just about anything you can think of.

sweet i an do that haha

[kikstand454]

submerged grass is a florida specialty. lol.

swim any paddle tail worm (ding aling, gambit, zoom speed worm), color of your choice..here its wtrm/red or junebug... over and through the grass with a 3/16oz bullet sinker.

absolutely deadly.

[TrippyJai]

This is my kind of water we are talking about here. Up here in southern Ontario, most lakes are very weedy.

1) weightless senko.

2) a crankbait that will tick the top of the grass, but won't get caught in it.

3) crankbait along the weed lines.

4) fish a rattle trap and rip it free from the weeds (haven't down this yet though)

5) t-rig worms

6) any type of soft plastic swim baits

7) top water

You can do just about anything you can think of.

sweet i an do that haha

+ take a spinnerbait and run it through the grass as well, but I rarely fish spinnerbaits. My gf loves this because it's easy, but I never catch fish on spinnerbaits.

[zaraspook_dylan2]

For the submerged weeds I love to use a t-rigged salamander or 12 inch Wave Worm. I weight it heavy, so i can cast past the 'mats' then bring it over top, and the extra weight also allows the rig to dip in any little pockets that may be there, sometimes that triggers hits, if nothing happens while your rig is over top of the weeds, slowly edge the rig over the edge of the mat, a lot of the time a bass will follow it while it's on the surface, then hammer it when it falls off the edge.

[SPAZ]

Excellent advice.

[Twistertail]

Does it form sub-surface grass or surface mats?

For submerged weeds, I like to burn a rattletrap over the top. Let it fall into the weeds and rip it out every once in a while.

For surface mats, try working a frog over the top or punch through the holes with a t-rigged plastic and a tungsten flipping weight.

what color scheme for the rattletraps do you like most? i got a variety of them but i dont want to take the time to experiment (lazy man right here haha ;D)

Red like their red crayfish pattern is a personal favorite

silver sides blue back

i have just those two colors but those are the most versatile and best producers time and time again