Shallow Weedy Pond. Your Thoughts.

[NJBucketMouth]

Made a few trips to a local pond the passed couple weekends. It is a 2 acre lake/pond. The pond has some trout which are stocked for the kids. Small change catfish. Good size Pickeral. And then an assortment of Sunnies, perch etc etc. And obviously my target fish largemouth. I've pulled out 7 largemouth and had one come off in the two trips. MOST fish were 1-2 pounders but I pulled out once then tipped the scale at just over 4. The deepest section of the pond is roughly 10 feet with the average depth being around 3. Structure other then 2 long docks is limited. The pond is very weedy with sparse intermingled boulders that's bary from baseball size to say a car hood size. All of my fish were caught on 7" power worms. Florida rigged with 1/8 ounce weight and 4/0 gama EWG HOOK. The only exception was one fish on a 5" senko today. And one that came loose. Water is clear to slightly stained snd the colors used were tequila sunrise. Watermelon red glitter. And the senkos I had with me were the light/dark brown and light dark green (don't remember the actual name). Any thoughts on the setup? I've been using the 1/8' ounce weight to really pop and snake the worms through the grass and the bass hammer them. Senko obviously fished weightless. Soon as it touched the water the fish inhaled it. And other presentations come to mind for me to try? I've thrown a wide variety of spinnerbaits etc and shallow cranks just to see what interest the fish had. And it was zero.

[MN_Bassin]

I'd do what you're doing, only focus on those boulders. If that is the only thing different than the weeds, fish will really key in on them. Maybe look for areas where different kinds of weeds merge together, there may be a contrasting bottom composition that can hold fish. On such a small pond, little things magnify, if that makes sense. The subtle changes are more pronounced in a little pond than in a large lake.

[NJBucketMouth]

Yeah I was thinking switch to a 1/16 ounce weight but I kinda feel like Bc its a constant popping through the weeds that the 1/8 ounce helps it along. I literally just pull it straight through the weeds. It lays on top. Then falls into holes. Then snakes in a out of the weeds. And they take it.

[NJBucketMouth]

I was debating a drop shot but I think that with summer weeds at their peak I may be simply holding the worm in the weeds as more so then working through. Meaning 90% of the time the fish wouldn't know its there anyway

[papajoe222]

I'd say if you have a system that's working, don't mess with it.  When it stops working is the time to look for something different.  That may be a simple change of weights, a change in the soft plastic bait, or something completely different.

When that time comes, I'd start out on top and work my way down to bottom presentations.  Weedless topwaters, to spinnerbaits, to jigs. You could opt for a swim jig and adjust your retrieve to cover the water column also.

[Kyrazzy7]

Try throwing a hollow bodied frog over the shallow submerged weeds either early morning or just before sundown. Your bound to catch a lot of fish an maybe even weed out a couple big ones. Especially if you use a bigger frog.

[Angry John]

You may want to try a light punching rig. 1/4 weight punch skirt 2/0 strait shank and some baby brush hawgs. This is a very compact setup and I get it threw a bunch of thick junk with a little shake.

[NJBucketMouth]

There is a weed edge where it goes from super thick to more sparse and the bottom Contours from larger rocks to more Gravel like. I've pulled a fish outta there on a Florida rig worm. I'm thinking midday fishing a Carolina/mojo rig might be worth sending out there and just cover more of

The water column.

[everythingthatswims]

I would go super early and throw a buzzbait. The bass will sit right up on top of the shallow grass and along weed edges, you should hammer them.

[NJBucketMouth]

I've really been trying to be as versatile as possible and will be expanding and adding a couple rod/reel setups. I fished tournaments for awhile with consistent performance and would like to get back into it again this coming spring. So I'm trying to feel out as many alternative techniques as possible for a non boater situation. Thanks for all the replies. Sometimes a little change makes or breaks the day.