bottom foliage!!

[Darrickp]

Hello all, I need some help. I was challenged to fish any plastics and choose to fish a Texas rig (witch I finished) the only problem that I am having is that every time I fish I end up getting nothing but a bunch of foliage from the bottom of the lake. I know that I can't totally get rid of this but how do I stop fishing nothing but thatBesides going to another lake. Thanks for the help!

[fishingrulz]

is it that nasty green gooey algae of like plants?

[Darrickp]

is it that nasty green gooey algae of like plants?

Yes!! I hate it. Its all over the place!!!

[fishingrulz]

i know dude its nasty too lmao it gets bubbles in it and stuff. ewww my question is will a bass hit a worm or bait....that has a little of this stuff on it? or does it have to be totally clean?

[mhsattack16]

Would you eat a steak if it had spinach all over it? I kid I kid. In all seriousness I have no clue but I would assume you dont want there to be more algae on it than soft plastic  :

[fishingrulz]

right right. but i see this all the time on t.v and i always thought that you had to keep the bait clean 100% of the time....but if you are fishing weeds is that realistic?

[Randall]

Fish a Texas Rig with a lighter weight and swim it over the slime or a splitshot rig with a very light weight and a straight tailed worm. I fish a splitshot rig with a 1/32 oz weight down to ten feet in weeds and slime rigged with a trickworm. Its just enough weight to get it down without it hanging up in the weeds and slime. I also won tournament one time fishing with a guy wacky rigging a trickworm with an open hook in algae. The fish still took the worms even though it was covered in the stuff.

[rocknfish9001]

senkos are hard to beat in conditions like that. Pretty much any weightless plastic. In my pond, where that stuff is abundant, even 1/16 oz weights will gather snot on it.

[slappy]

I totally agree with rocknfish at my home town lakes there is this problem also, senko weightless you cant go wrong

[fly_freebird90]

Use a lighter weight.  I had this same problem earlier this year and now it is solved.  No more weeds.

[Bass_Newbie]

Senkos will work good and you may also want to try some flukes.

Charles

[mudcatwilly]

Use a salt impregnated (floating) plastic worm and carolina rig it.  Try to figure out how tall the weeds are on the bottom and make your leader about a foot longer than that.  As you drag the weight through the weeds, the worm will float and wiggle just above the weeds.  Don't forget to make your worm weedless

[BassKing813]

Try a crankbait.