How to fish a top?

[progator123]

:-?I'm sure there are several technics for fishing a top for bass. What I've been doing is dropping a jig or tx rig worm into top, the problem I'm having is hanging up and I believe scaring fish away. I would appreciate any advice on how to fish a top/brush pile.

[RonnieF]

For a tx rig, maybe try pegging your weight, if you aren't doing so already. Maybe go a little lighter on the weight.  I was gonna say crankbait it, but if you are hanging up tx rigs, you're sure to hang up the treble hooks.

Good luck,

Ronnie

[Jig Man]

I like to fish Trigged salt craws right smack in the middle of brush piles.  I use a 3' mono or fluro leader and braid. 

When I am pulling the braid over a limb it feels like a hack saw on a dowel rod.  When it gets smooth I know it is the leader.  I also know that in 3' the bait will contact the limb.

When the bait touches the limb, I gently wiggle it over the limb and let it fall.  I repeat the process until I get a bite or work over the brush pile.

Jigs I like to count down and swim over the top just barely nicking a limb or two.  When I am fishing jigs down in the brush, I switch to my brush jigs which have a much smaller hook so they don't get hung up so often.