Punching guys, do you think they are in here?

[Bandersnatch]

I can drive my trolling motor through this maze, at least a hundred yards in, that means, it’s got at least a foot to 1.5 ft of water, 

 

what is this emergent vegetation? Do you think largemouth are in here? (They are in everything else in the lake) and how would you fish it? As heavy of a weight as needed to get in?

 

nobody else around here goes into it 

 

last September I caught them in it in the attached picture where you can tell it’s more open and died off.

[IcatchDinks]

I've punched a lot of guys, but never amongst lily pads. 

[casts_by_fly]

They will be in there but you need to find the spots inside of it. 
 

65 braid, 1 oz 

[TOXIC]

I’ll bet they are in there but that’s a lot of lake real estate for them to spread out in.  I’d test it out by flinging a frog on braid to see if I could get any blowups.  I’d also be looking at my maps to see if there are any deeper holes or some other structure.  

[Bandersnatch]

Too thick to get a frog to touch much water. Map idea is a great idea 

[Catt]

First picture you're sitting?

Second picture you're standing?

 

In the second picture I see lots of openings. There is brush off to the right & off center to the left farther back more brush.

 

I could swim a worm through that or flip-n-pitch a Rage Craw. 

 

Do I think they are in there?

 

Give me a couple hours 

[Bandersnatch]

First picture current, second picture September of last year 

[txchaser]

IMHO unless there a cut/creek channel/something, they probably won't be in the vast expanse. Seems too shallow for that. 

Cast length from where all that meets deeper water? Yeah go for it. 

[FishTank]

Getting bites in that stuff generally isn't the issue. It's getting the fish out of it that can be challenging. Good luck.  

 

 

[Bandersnatch]

First picture current, second picture September of last year 

 

I found several in there punching it with this homemade long drop Tokyo rig with a 1.5 oz miller tungeston  punching weight and a ichikawa ts3 flipping hooking. I still had to lov the bait into the air to get it to punch down through those heavy pads. All you could hear was a crash; set the hook and drag. There was probably 18 inches of water in there. The pads, if that is what they are, probably stick out of the water three feet, almost a foot above my boat edge when up against it. As stated above, 18 inches of water, 3 feet above the water of vertical vegetation