In the south, where weeds are especially tough, the Texas rig is a favorite, but you can experiment to find a technique that works best for you.Another exceptional bait for thick weeds is the weedless spoon. This is an effective technique, because bass are often looking up for their food, so they are likely to spot your offering.If the weeds are covering the surface, it greatly reduces the variety of baits that are effective. Fishing for Bass Using Google Maps - … Once you find the fish, you can always slow things down with a weedless plastic setup.In isolated weeds, a 2 1/2-inch tube, rigged Texas-style with or without a light weight attached, and Senko-style options are top choices.
Prime depths vary from lake to lake. Sure enough on my dad's next cast with a white spinnerbait, he got a 4 pound smallmouth. While some bass fans struggle to put these hard-fighting beauties in the boat this time of year, the following insight on behavior, scouting strategies and overlooked fishing patterns can help you use the heat of summer to your advantage and hook more bronzebacks on every trip.Be forewarned, making this your best summer ever for the legendary brown bass could entail casting outside your comfort zone.
However, fishing thick weeds successfully is all about selecting the right bait.Among the best choices for baits is the plastic worm, because it is resistant to most weeds. In fall he catches them around scattered clumps, where reaction lures are best. By the time July rolls around, smallies have slipped into summer behavior patterns.Rocky shoreline structure areas, such as points and shallow reefs in 3 to 8 feet of water, are focal points of much of the activity. All Rights Reserved. But rest assured, the rewards are well worth the effort for savvy anglers willing to look beyond textbook patterns to put more fish on the line.Like largemouth bass and other members of the sunfish family, smallmouth bass spawn in late spring and early summer. To find bass fast, look for weeds sprouting near classic rock structure or a hard-bottom flat. Prey, such as small fish, crayfish, frogs and other critters use the thick weeds as cover from predators and they are also attracted by the high oxygen levels. His partner saw a particularly deep section in the weeds, cast to it and caught a hefty 5 pound smallmouth bass.
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Vegetation often holds the key to summer smallmouth success, he said.Two types of aquatic weeds get Leer's attention.
If you can keep your bait between the surface and the top of the weeds, you can fish spinner baits, crankbaits, plastic worms and just about any other bass bait you have in your tackle box, because you will be able to avoid the weeds.
There are two main approaches to fishing bass in thick weeds: going through them and going over them. He also catches a lot of bass on spinnerbaits and lipless rattlebaits. "Smaller clumps — sometimes even one or two plants — can also attract bass. A small weedbed or even a few stalks of cabbage growing in a trough with rocks on both sides of it can be a gold mine.
Also, bass found in heavy cover do not spook as easily, because they feel safe in the weed cover – another advantage for anglers.Some weed cover may appear so thick, it seems impossible to retrieve a bait through it without hooking a giant glob of weeds. This means you have the option to read your magazine on most popular phones and tablets.To get started, click the link below to visit mymagnow.com and learn how to access your digital magazine. Thanks to the advanced features on a number of GPS chartplotters, you can highlight structure lying in the depths you want to target, helping you focus on shallow structure throughout the system you're fishing.Sonar, too, can help identify hard bottoms, and side- or 360-degree sonar scanning are great for eyeballing structure without running your boat over the bass.One great setup is a patch of weeds sandwiched between a pair of rock formations.