Other Options?

[Koop]

Ok, the lake chain I fish primarily has very little top water slop but an abundance of tall grass (grass reaching the surface in 10 fow). I have found jigs work wonders, T-rigged soft plastics work great (weighted and unweighted), buzz baits, frogs, moss boss and other top waters usually perform well. Issue I have is there is not enough top water slop to flip heavy jigs / punch into. There is to much grass to use a crank without clearing weeds every cast, spinner baits perform very well, but still bring weeds back to the boat maybe 1/5 casts, though I rip them through the thick stuff.

What are some other weedless applications that would be effective in these conditions that I may be overlooking?

[Jordan Goehring]

Wacky a Senko type bait with a weedless hook. You can also float a jerkbait ontop of the water and twitch it hard to go under the water then it will pop back on top.

[Koop]

er yeah I should have included that in the list... said t-rigged soft plastics... suppose weedless soft plastics in general would have been a better statement.  

[soccplayer07]

Flukes, senkos, keel weighted skinny beavers to name a few that i use.

[Jordan Goehring]

updated my post. look again

[Derek84]

Hey I just got back from a trip to N. WI. We were seeing the same type of situation up there and found that 5.5inch/6.5inch soft plastic swimbaits (Luck ''E'' Strike Bass Magic) rigged with a heavy vertical drop/swimbait hook would swim right through.

[Koop]

Hey I just got back from a trip to N. WI. We were seeing the same type of situation up there and found that 5.5inch/6.5inch soft plastic swimbaits (Luck ''E'' Strike Bass Magic) rigged with a heavy vertical drop/swimbait hook would swim right through.

I'm going to have to give that a shot, should help build my confidence in swim baits too.

[Koop]

Wacky a Senko type bait with a weedless hook. You can also float a jerkbait ontop of the water and twitch it hard to go under the water then it will pop back on top.

If your talking about working like an original rapala, thats a no go, the grass is so shallow that the 6"-1' depth would snag the trebbles and be pulling in tons of weeds.  I pull in weeds with complete top waters at times like the super spook.

[Jordan Goehring]

I see, well that idea about the swimbaits sounds like it can drag the hogs out of there.

[bilgerat]

Here's an 'outside of the box' idea that I killed 'em on this year.

Gather up some of your used stick worms (Senkos, Dingers, Trick Sticks, etc.) Cut off the last 2" to 2.5" of the worm. Rig them straight onto ballhead jigs with the tapered end at the rear. An 1/8 oz jighead is the heaviest you want to go, so this works best on spinning gear. As soon as it hits the water, start the retrieve so you stay out of the grass.  You should see the action on these little buggers. I've done well on many different bodies of water in different depths, so it's not some one time deal that worked for me.

These don't always come back clean, but with only a single hook riding up they do decent near the grass.

[EdKras]

peg a 1/4 oz weight to a 5 in senko and pitch it into the weeds.  

[FishDontLikeMe1301600221]

try these http://www.basspro.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10151_-1_10001_103693_151004005_151000000_151004000_151-4-5?ordProd=Y&CMID=TOP_selectitems#itemDetail

great bait,might be used for redfish/saltwater but we recently went on a great lakes trip,same situation like you with the weeds,we used these and the fish wouldnt stop nailing these,and they usualy come back clean and weed free.we also would take the swimmer off and put frogs on the hook..awesome.