I went fishing earlier this week and had a lot of success catching bass by running a H2O Express bluegill patterned squarebill crank and a Zoom Super Fluke just outside of the cattails.  The water was usuall pretty shallow.  No more than two-three feet and clear. 

 

The question I have is, what would you suggest I use to throw up into the cattails.  A heavy jig?  A t-rigged soft plasic?  A Poulan Weed-Eater? 

 

What have you had success with?

I would throw either a 1/2oz jig with a trailer or a weighted (and pegged) T-rig with something like a Craw or Bug on it.

What style of jig would you recommend?

big jig with craw trailer

Avoid long and skinny worms, they wrap around the plant stems, but short worms work nicely, pegged creature baits too, jigs, weedless spoons with a tráiler also work, spinnerbaits reeled paralel to the plants when they form walls or in between the plants when they grow isolated or in small patches.

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