My favorite pond is pretty shallow, about 2 - 4ft. where I like to fish but it's a muddy bottom and very weedy with weeds within a foot of the surface and some lily pads too but the water is pretty clear. What baits/techniques would be best for this area?

Frogs, weedless spoon*, weedless soft plastics, swim jigs, buzz bait should keep you busy catching bass.

Tom

* Johnson Silver Minnow maybe the most overlooked lure for this type of cover.

The caffeine shad would be one of my top choices.  Wally World is full of great options.

the Hulla  stick is also one that though be in your box along with the fat ika 

 

plastics that allow for skin 

 

 

Just now, NHBull said:

The caffeine shad would be one of my top choices.  Wally World is full of great options.

the Hulla  stick is also one that though be in your box along with the fat ika 

 

 

 

 

 

I would use swim jigs and frogs...

46 minutes ago, Mr Swim Jig said:

I would use swim jigs and frogs...

I would add a t-rig plastic.It should slip through the pads or you can drag it over them.

Trick worms, senkos, weightless or light keel weighted swimbaits(keitech, grasspig, cane thumper), sluggo, fluke. 

Frogs, worms and swim jigs would be my go-to's. 

4 hours ago, WRB said:

Frogs, weedless spoon*, weedless soft plastics, swim jigs, buzz bait should keep you busy catching bass.

Tom

* Johnson Silver Minnow maybe the most overlooked lure for this type of cover.

I have also had luck with the johnson silver minnow. It comes through weeds very well. 

I just fished a pond that sounds just like this. I caught fish on a fat ika rigged skirt up (weightless of course) along the edge of lily pads. I guess the ika was light enough to stay on top of the weeds. 

There's nothing like a frog for waddling freely over heavy weeds. Pause it in the pockets. The Gambler EZ Swimmer is a swimbait that's slippery enough to glide over and through heavy stuff. Rig it weedless and weightless. Use braid.

Weightless super fluke

Weightless senko 

Horny toad or Ribbit Frog

Weightless Ultra vibe Speed Worm or magnum speed craw

Hollow bodied frog

 

 

Work em over grass and then kill the bait & let it soak in the gaps between grass. 

13 hours ago, WRB said:

Frogs, weedless spoon*, weedless soft plastics, swim jigs, buzz bait should keep you busy catching bass.

Tom

* Johnson Silver Minnow maybe the most overlooked lure for this type of cover.

 

X2, I also really like a sluggo or other slow sinking soft jerkbait for shallow, weedy areas.

If you are referring to the green mossy "green mush" stuff that instantly grabs the front of the eye of a hook or lure....

 

Weightless senko.

Or keep your lures above this stuff.

 

Sometimes you just have to pull the mush off  after each cast.

Poppers and buzzbaits are a great option as well 

 

Two of the most weedless baits I've ever fished are a 'weedless spoon' (e.g. Johnson Silver Minnow)

and a 'soft swimbait' (unweighted Big EZ). Both of these gems negotiate surface litter

that would bog-down a Buzzbait. Since both are normally retrieved nonstop,

they provide wider area coverage than stop-&-go baits like a hollow frog.

 

Roger

6 hours ago, dsqui said:

Poppers and buzzbaits are a great option as well 

+1 on the popper baits. Can't believe I forgot to mention that. It's become one of my go to topwater baits since I learned to walk to dog with one the last couple of yrs. 

 

It works so well walking it up to cover, then let it soak. Couple of extra spits & chugs, then BOOM!

On 4/29/2017 at 3:54 PM, TX-Deluxe said:

 

If you are referring to the green mossy "green mush" stuff that instantly grabs the front of the eye of a hook or lure....

 

No, the stuff I'm talking about is the tall stringy stuff...not the mat-type like this.

On ‎4‎/‎28‎/‎2017 at 0:49 PM, WRB said:

Johnson Silver Minnow maybe the most overlooked lure for this type of cover.

 

On ‎4‎/‎29‎/‎2017 at 6:44 PM, RoLo said:

Johnson spoon are both fully weedless lures.

X2

It may be called the silver minnow but that gold color is killer.