Best rig/lure for heavy grass/weeds

[ReelFysh]

So now that its full fledge summer, the lakes around my area is matted down with grass/weeds. As I look into the water, it covers the entire floor. It grows up to about 6 inches before the water surface. The surface has some of this grass floating about as well. I've tried weightless worms and frogs, but doesn't seem to work. I prefer crankbaits, but and lure with treble hooks always pull up a ton of this grass. Any tips to get on the bass would be great. 

[detroit1]

Not many options for what you've described. Maybe wake baits or floating jerks, but frogs and weightless plastics are your best bets. Or find different waters to fish.  Everyone would like to fish the lures they like, but usually you have to fish what the conditions you are faced with.

[keagbassr]

Punch it

[scaleface]

With weeds 6 inches below the surface , a spinnerbait and buzzbait   should be able to be fished over it .  I catch a  lot of bass with them in that situation .

[Deleted account]

Ragy T-rigged plastics, and toads.

[LrgmouthShad]

49 minutes ago, scaleface said:

With weeds 6 inches below the surface , a spinnerbait and buzzbait   should be able to be fished over it .  I catch a  lot of bass with them in that situation .

I’d like to add to this that with a spinnerbait, a single blade and especially a willow or Oklahoma blade catches a lot less grass for me. Indiana does ok. Colorado is a no go.  With two blades there are other components on the wire shaft for the grass to get caught on. 

[Kenny Yi]

swim jig

 

punch rig

 

topwater

[Deleted account]

3 minutes ago, LrgmouthShad said:

I’d like to add to this that with a spinnerbait, a single blade and especially a willow or Oklahoma blade catches a lot less grass for me. Indiana does ok. Colorado is a no go.  With two blades there are other components on the wire shaft for the grass to get caught on. 

Agrre with the single willow, or do away with the blade entirely and throw a swim jig.

[Ski]

Swimming worm...Weightless Senko....Weightless Fluke.

[cyclops2]

If the fish is hungry ?  AND  Has not been already caught previously on the same lure?  

 

 Bingo

[ReelFysh]

Good inputs. Thanks!!
Forgot about the spinner bait. I’ll have to give that a try.
 

[LrgmouthShad]

49 minutes ago, BassWhole! said:

Agrre with the single willow, or do away with the blade entirely and throw a swim jig.

Everybody’s got their thing. I think swim jigs would work wonders in heavy grass and in many other situations. I don’t know because I’ve barely fished them. I just keep it simple and throw spinners. 

[Bankbeater]

Topwaters, shallow running crankbaits, weightless plastic worms, flukes, and senkos.  You can also try working a small jig with a craw trailer across the top of the growth.  I like jigs that are 1/8 ounce.  When they snag in the vegetation you can take up the slack and pop them free without picking up too much.

[TnRiver46]

? 

[PressuredFishing]

7 hours ago, ReelFysh said:

So now that its full fledge summer, the lakes around my area is matted down with grass/weeds. As I look into the water, it covers the entire floor. It grows up to about 6 inches before the water surface. The surface has some of this grass floating about as well. I've tried weightless worms and frogs, but doesn't seem to work. I prefer crankbaits, but and lure with treble hooks always pull up a ton of this grass. Any tips to get on the bass would be great. 

Frogs for top, anything trigger below, even jigs are doable. Just change the weight for the thickness of the grass. Weightless flukes in less grassy areas, and add a little weight if you need to get into the grass. Also you can throw cranks on the grassline or a transition from grass to sand or something. Finally a swimjig or seedless swimbait is another option, match weights accordingly

[Nitrofreak]

Lately I have really been working hard with the Tokyo Rig, if there is even the slightest gap you stand a great chance of getting that rig to the bottom, the coolest things I love about the rig is that it falls straight down, the other is that if you do get bit the weight is not something you have to worry about exploding the mouth of the fish open and potentially missing the fish.

[softwateronly]

I've taken a heavy grass jig w/ a grub, 3/4-11/4oz, on a stout rod and stroked/ripped my way through the densest weeds.  It's almost like horizontal punching.  There are times when this seems like it can't be beat as far as technique goes.  The double hop stroking method seems to be key because a lot of bites are on that first pull of the first hop.

 

scott

[Dens228]

Buzzbait, swim jig/paddle tail, wake bait, weightless plastics, Whopper Plopper.