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Look for clearings in the pads. Once you get to a clearing let the frog sit giving it a couple twitches before moving on. If that doesn’t work try pitching a jig into the open areas.

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Just because the area looks good for bass doesn’t mean it is!

Start but working the edges, pockets and any boat lanes.

Frogs have 3 speeds stop, slow and fast try all 3.

Look for disturbed water, swirls and pad movements indicating something lives there.

Tom

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9 minutes ago, WRB said:

Just because the area looks good for bass doesn’t mean it is!

Start but working the edges, pockets and any boat lanes.

Frogs have 3 speeds stop, slow and fast try all 3.

Look for disturbed water, swirls and pad movements indicating something lives there.

Tom

What lures should I use to work the edges? 

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33 minutes ago, Thefishingnoobie1987 said:

What lures should I use to work the edges? 

Frogs!

Johnson Silver Minnow weedless spoon with a white or chartreuse 3” grub trailer is a good pad lure.

Tom

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2 hours ago, Thefishingnoobie1987 said:

What lures should I use to work the edges? 

I've gotten a few on the edges with jigs and T-Rigs. What you can do is cast it on the lily pad in front, then drag it off and they will hit it on the fall often quite aggressively.

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9 hours ago, Boomstick said:

. What you can do is cast it on the lily pad in front, then drag it off and they will hit it on the fall often quite aggressively.


When retrieving anything through a pad field, keeping aware of any pad movement a few feet away, let it sit on a pad a few seconds as @Boomstick explained with no movement. 
Slowly drag it off and let it fall to the bottom and repeat, If it gets that far!

 

When working any bait through fairly thick vegetation of any kind, don’t just stare and concentrate on your bait. 
Keep scanning the area around it looking for any unusual movement. 
Especially if the movement is coming in your line’s direction!

 

 

 

 

Mike

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When I’m fishing pads, what I usually do is cast my frog right up on to the shoreline, sometimes several feet up the bank. Then I’ll drag the frog down the bank into the water and pads. You’d be surprised how many fish are pressed right against the bank under the pads in less than a foot of water. This is a seasonal technique for me. Every early summer the bass become catchable this way. The rest of the year I catch more fish on the outside edges of lilies or just away from the bank. 

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Jar11591 that was a excellent answer!!! Depending on how heavy the cover is you could be surprised how well a spinnerbait will work  doing the same thing.

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Ive found that if my lake isnt working for frogs I will break out a fluke rig.

Zoom super flukes rigged weightless pitched into hole in the pads or on edges produce for me without getting hung up like jigs do. Higher in the water column and all.

Pitch and twitch.

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