What Lure In Your Op Is Most Effective In Weeded Areas? 2025

Squirmin Wormin reply :

I haven't been fishing in weeded areas like lilly pads, or well vegetated areas of water like when i'm in a boat, but when i do get a chance to get by these areas of weeds i usually go with a worm either with it weighted or not. Then throw it right into the middle of say a patch of lilly pads and on across the top, then drag it very slow and let it drop and sometimes get a hit, or while its on top get a hit there also. That's how i fish weeded areas. how do you fish in weeded areas and your most effective lure and technique for doing so? in your op , i know there's numerous amounts of fresh water vegetation,but the one you normally deal with the most in your fishing . some people target cattails,etc.. i mostly favor lilly pads.

BassinLou reply :

Frogs and zoom speed worms works for me.

Mike L reply :

Frogs, Brush Hogs, Flukes, Rage Craw.

For punching through mat's...Sweet beaver or Rage bug.

Mike

ColdSVT reply :

I usually attack with a beaver and frog. Sometimes ill hit em with a swimjig

Bruce424 reply :

If its sparse lilies I like worms or brush hogs even spinnerbaits will work. Heavier cover it's frogs or zoom z hog.

Catch and Grease reply :

Texas/florida rigged soft plastic or a weed less top water!

ABW reply :

Weightless fluke

OntarioFishingGuy reply :

As long as the weeds aren't coming to the surface, I feel I can catch them ripping a hair jig through the grass. If the vegetation is coming to the surface and forming mats, I will punch with an ugly Otter or throw a frog.

Bassguytom reply :

I'm a jig guy in pads. I also throw weightless T-Rigged plastics also.

long island basser reply :

Most lakes in my area have lily pads and I have done well with t/ rigged plastics, frogs, jigs, and spinnerbaits.

einscodek reply :

anything t-rigged

deep reply :

^^ don't you mean florida-rigged?

iceintheveins reply :

In matted vegetation nothing works like a frog. A creature is great along grass edges or holes in matted vegetation. For some reason though, nothing gets strikes for me on the edges of mats like a jig.

reb67 reply :

senkos and zoom fluke stick weightless

einscodek reply :

hollow frog is best

hookups can be tricky

punching jig otherwise

Texas Pride reply :

are there any weedless hard lures

Texas Pride reply :

I know of some but I never really liked them I want something fast like a rattle trap or crank bait but be able to go through grass

Comfortably Numb reply :

Fluke

Texas Pride reply :

Yeah i guess a fluke is one i havent even thought about that

roadwarrior reply :

GYCB Kreature

http://www.bassresource.com/bass-fishing-forums/topic/11664-warning-you-might-get-your-arm-broke/

hatrix reply :

If you are talking just pads then you can fish a lot of stuff through there. It doesn't really limit my options as much as something like thick grass. Depending how sparse they are and how lucky you are feeling you can even work a squarebill or trap through them. The only real issue is catching a treble on the stalks. Those things are tuff and it can be hard to pull free. Generally though any plastics or jigs are good. Spinner baits and chatter baits along with hollow bellies also work well and will come through there no problem usually.

BasshunterJGH reply :

On 10/10/2014 at 8:59 AM, einscodek said:
anything t-rigged

This and frogs:)

BasshunterJGH reply :

On 10/12/2014 at 4:56 AM, Texas Pride said:
are there any weedless hard lures

Squarebills, spinnerbaits, and lipless cranks come through grass well in my experience. Topwaters are always good around sparse grass.

Turkey sandwich reply :

Bass tend to strike up through pads, duckweed, etc (surface vegetation) usually without a great look at the lure, but based on seeing and feeling the movement anticipating something (frog, mouse, whatever) moving across the top. You can get hits flipping all sorts of weed less baits on top ranging from frogs/mouse baits to light t-rigged 7-10" worms to even light weedless jigs with big trailers. I've had 4lb bass blow up pads for jigs and weedless spoons drug across the top.

I like working edges with topwater whenever applicable, but most of my edge fishing is jigs and Texas rigged plastics.

Ozark_Basser reply :

1. Hollow Body Frog

2. Punch a jig

3. Spinnerbait or swimjig in the sparse areas

riverat reply :

Everything mentioned will work, but don't ever underestimate a Johnson Silver Minnow. I've been using them for over 50 years in these types of areas and I can assure you they still work.

primetime reply :

call me crazy, but you can fish a rodent or beaver just like a frog and have more confidence if a Bass misses your bait on a blow up....Just let the Rodent sink to the bottom.

I fish a senko 6-7" or swim senko most of the time for plastics when going horizontal, and if I want to get the bait a bit deeper, I may use some nail weights in a Caffeine shad fluke, or start chucking a 10-12" red shad curl tail worm, or black and blue.....I alway's have a smaller 4" worm ready to go after firing them up with larger baits which is what a huge senko walking over weeds will often do if a Monster does not swallow it.

*Hank reply :

Texas rigged Gyb senkos, zoom horny Toads, zoom swimming fluke, Gyb d-shad. :):):)

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