Took my wife's grandfather to a pond we try to fish weekly. It's a little over 120 yards down 2 banks with the other 2 around 200 or so. Good pond about 16 feet in the deepest corner. Caught 6 each on friday and 3 each yesterday before getting rained out. What was strange is that on friday i didn't have any tackle so I borrowed one of his baitcasters and whatever I could find in his bag. Ended up with 2 pumpkinseed brush hogs and 2 frogs of varying colors. I've never caught a fish on either until that day and learned quickly that these baits don't last long when the fish bite - they were destroyed after a couple bass per lure. The water is down about a foot or 2 and the grass was barely visible out of the water. I would cast past the weeds from the bank out to about 4 feet of water and and run the brush hog like a buzzbait toward the bank in 2 feet- deadly. Same with the frogs until I learned to let em sink a second before bringing it back to buzz. I was blown away by how effective these baits were. Went to academy the next morning and made a creature kit with brush hogs, frogs, Kriet kreatures, and yo-mama's. Yesterday we only fished about 2 hours before the weather turned rough. They didn't bite the watermelon seed brush hog as well but still rather effective. The 4 inch kriet kreature worked well - frogs still good, but no takers on the yo-mama beaver bait. All in all it was a huge confidence booster - i'm sold on creature baits. Any tips for better success from these lures would be appreciated - senkos are bench warmers now! 6'6 medium heavy rod with 15 pound cx p-line and 3/O offset and wide gap hooks with no weight.

DO NOT give up on the Yo mama. I use all of the same Big Bites Baits as you and they all work very well. If you can. Get your hands on some fighting frogs by them. And the Kreit tail lizards 8".

Sounds like a great day for you!  I have many of those days since I fish a lot of ponds and I agree that submerged grass is bass heaven.

If you want to have even more fun early inthe morning or late in the evening, you might try a top water lure such as a jitterbug, hula popper or a lightweight frog that you can jerk across surface of those grass beds.  It will make for some exciting fishing.

Almost 100% of the time when I use a soft plastic, it is a creature bait. I am currently using a 10" Rage Tail Anaconda cut down a bit but that thing ha so much action I consider it a creature bait.

Creatures are the best. I am going to be trying out the Rage Tail Space Monkey. I bet she will take over the spot for super brush hogs.

I saw those on the website - looked awesome - one of those baits is called something else but I would have named it the batman or something similar cuz the dangling legs wobble and look just like the logo does in the movies when the bat is flying at the camera - awesome