Best lure or bait for a very vegetated pond

[Steelhead_Hunter88]

Ive fished this pond a few times its a 80 achre. Thers big bass in there ive caught a few on zoom rubber flooks. But the pond is very vegetated wondering if you guys have any good techniques.

[52niner]

Just use a 3/8 to 5/8 punce sinker Carolina or texas style to punch through the weeds. Depending on the weeds you will either need to increase your test to pull out of the weeds or decrease your test to slide through it.

[deadbait dave]

if it mats on top, it's hard to beat a rat!

[fishermantim4]

weedless frog. forget who makes them but their soft bodied and when the bass hits he gets hooked

[1tigger]

Scum Frog across the top or a Green Pumpkin Senko !
Both killers for bass in heavy vegitation .

[Steelhead_Hunter88]

Those ideas all sound great gonna have to try um. I also thought about tryin a weedless jig tipped with a minnow.

[nhpikeking]

a norman weed walker such an awesome lure

[troutaddict33]

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[Boomer]

A plastic nightcrawler with a "twister" tail rigged Texas style with no weight. Either run it across the weeds/mats and let the tail do its work or take it tothe edge and twitch the crawler. It works!

[Skipper]

A: surface lure or 1 minus crank for submergent veg

B: Texas rigged plastics

C: Spinnerbaits (man I do I love spinnerbaits)

D: Put live bait in the deeper pockets

[Steelhead_Hunter88]

Thers some spots that are vegetated some areas have lil five feet wide holes were thers no weeds. i thought maybe jig a minnow. Does it work good to run frogs over the weeds it wont get stuck.

[Skipper]

Just make sure you have heavy enough gear to rip the fish out when they take it.

[oldtown42]

Tube bait with offset hook rigged weedless. Slowly pull over the surfaceso it will drop into openings. 20 lb test line.

[Steelhead_Hunter88]

well i got 10 pound cajun line i use that for steelhead an salmon an cuaght many over ten pounds with it.

[Skipper]

Go with at least 20lb, I like braid because it will cut the weeds. If you were only fighting the fish 4lb would be fine, but you also need to rip the fish out of the weeds. Your drag does you no good when you have a fish wound up in matted weeds, the only way to get the fish out is with brute strength. I have pulled in many bass in a mass of weeds as big as me. It is pretty funny when you don't even know how big the fish is until you start pulling the weeds off.