Looking for tips on fishing bass in thick weeds/reeds/lillies/weed bottom?
Posted by Best Bass Fishing Lures on Monday, August 23rd, 2010
Ive been fishing a pond lately that has big fish in it (landed a 16″ smallmouth) but is 90% weed bottom (looks like a carpet of weeds that just layers the bottom, so there is a layer of water a couple feet deep between my canoe and the weeds) and Lillies and weeds/reeds the rest. Ive only been able to fish a small shelve of rocks/mud bottom because i dont know how to fish the think stuff…. any tips tricks lure ideas……don’ts?
Filed in Bass Fishing Lures | 8 responses so far
lymanspondon 23 Aug 2010 at 12:01 pm 1pick up a package of plastic jerk bait shads and jerk bait frogs, you will need to learn how to rig these weedless…..try looking at youtube video’s and look for ” Doa lures rigging jerk baits”…..
if you get worm hooks without weights you can fish the surface very well, also look into some weighted worm hooks to bounce the shads off the bottom…
some don’ts? do not try throwing a lure with a treble hook in the weeds you will be wasting your time..
Michael=)on 23 Aug 2010 at 12:12 pm 2Im 13:P u need to use a weedless rigged worm or topwater lure like popper and jitter bugs i fish in that stuff all the time in texas… i caught a 7 pound largemouth on a popper hope this helps;)
Broskion 23 Aug 2010 at 12:18 pm 3try some floating frog immitations, such as a scum-frog, they can be dynamite in semi-clear water. Also try a buzzbait, shallow running crank bait, poppers, plastic worms on a texas rig fished weedless, and suspended baits. Just keep trying different lures. They are a lot of fun lures to use in your type of conditions. My #1 suggestion would be a scum-frog in the lilly pads. Try to match local baitfish and just run them a little higher in the water. I catch some nice smallmouth on twister spinner baits run shallow, they can’t resist!
jtexason 23 Aug 2010 at 12:45 pm 4any topwater
flukes rigged weedless
weightless wacky-rigged senko
210.KYLE.210on 23 Aug 2010 at 1:14 pm 5try a lipless crankbait. a red/ crawdad looking one
Dennisz Pro Fishermenon 23 Aug 2010 at 1:26 pm 6Erin has no understanding, using slugs? It’s weed. Anyways, I know theres a lot of weed than. Get a Top Water lure, i love the Spit N’ King It’s awesome, lots of noise. Weedless Spinner Baits work great for weeds, i wouldn’t say it would work. But, if you get anything weedless with the weedless hooks, cast hard!
Good luck.
copperheadon 23 Aug 2010 at 2:08 pm 7use rubber worms carolina rig with a bullet weight top water frogs at night
Revoon 23 Aug 2010 at 2:39 pm 8Find a bait you can fish close to the weeds with out getting hung in them. The fish will sometimes burry them self in the weeds to ambush food. A zoom trick worm with a1/8 oz. weight works well.