Hey guys-

 

I just got finished watching a bassmaster tournament that aired a couple weeks ago.. i saw someone pull up in about 5 feet of water and started pitching a jig into the submerged weed beds..

 

I have never seen this done before, my home lakes have enormous beautiful weed beds…have any of you seen this technique? Usually when i think of a jig it is flipping and pitching into shallow cover...

 

The thing that was most surprising was that he just plopped the jig in water like two feet from the boat

" Usually when i think of a jig it is flipping and pitching into shallow cover.."

 

That is exactly what that pro was doing, you just don't consider weed beds as cover.  Cover they are and IMO the best there is.  A weed bed not only has pockets you can flip or pitch to, it has points, inside and outside turns, transition areas where the bottom content changes or where another type of weed takes over, etc.

The main reason many anglers like pitching and flipping in this is because water clearity doesn't have the effect it does on other forms of cover. A fish holding in the weeds has limited visibility vs. one holding in wood, or rocky cover.  Even fish holding under a dock have a better view outside their surroundings.