Help with fishing heavy weeds

[Senko4life]

I live just west of pittburgh pa and fish mostly farm ponds.  I've been hammering the bass on beds for about the past month but the weeds have taken over most of my ponds over the past two weeks.  I have a basic idea on how to fish the heavy weeds and tried a few times with no luck.  I've been trying meduim sized creature with a heavy bullet wait pegged about a foot up and just flipping it into the mats.  I was just wondering if anyone had any good tips or reasons to why im not having any luck.  Any advidce is greatly appriciated.  

[brian_82]

Try pegging the weight up agains the bait. Other than that, you can only catch the fish if they are there. Maybe your in the wrong spot.

[Senko4life]

Do you have any ideas where I would be able to find the bass post spawn?

[brian_82]

Depending on what your farm ponds are like. You will probably need to find some sort of cover in deeper water, say 4-5 feet atleast. I dont know how deep your ponds are, basically the fish pull out of the shallows and rest/feed.

[.dsaavedra.]

if its hot out and the fish are sluggish, try texas rigging huge soft plastic worms weightless and crawling them along the bottom in deep water.

[LakeAnnaBasser]

id try a spro bronzeye frog

[Guest avid]

I agree about pegging the weight to the plastic.

what you are doing is sending a hunk a lead to the bottom where the fish are and leaving the juicy critter bait hanging up in the weeds.

Also try a fat ika.

Rig it skirt up and pitch it to the edge of the weedline.  It will "smim down and away from the boat.  Right in to the jaws of ms. LMB>

[Pond-Pro]

You nead to get a frog or rat bait that floats on top of the weads.  Then when you get a strike, through your creature in there (pegged at the worm) and catch him!  Good luck!!

[bassbob08]

peg a 10" red shar culprit,get it down there and hang on.