can some one help with finese fishing soft plastics through the weeds? im getting caught up like crazy!!!!!!!!!

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Check out Ike's Berkley feature in the current Bass Times (February, 2007) for some tips on fishing weeds.

I do a lot of finesse fishing in weeds. I use two rigs 90% of the time. The first is a splitshot rig with a 1/32 or 1/16 oz bullshot weight placed one to two feet up the line. The second rig is a jighead and worm.  The jighead I use is a Spot Stalker jighead which has a head designed like a grass jig. With the jighead I use a 1/16 or a 1/8 oz jighead. Most of the time I use a trickworm on both rigs. What you want is just enough weight to get the bait down to the top of the weeds and not so much weight you hang up in them.

You need to provide more info lake type depth water color type of weed and more.

Garnet

WELCOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Welcome to the forum Sjnobes

You'd be hard put to find a more weedless lure than a texas-rigged plastic worm.

In submergent weeds you might need 1/4 oz bullet sinker to slide through the foliage.

Over a surface mat, you might need up to a 1-oz sinker to punch through the blanket.

In emergent weeds, you're probably better off getting away from a plastic worm because they tend to wrap around the stalks.

A fluke is a more compact lure and doesn't wrap around the emergent stems of bulrushes and cattails.

Above all else, don't leave the weeds  

Roger

Finesse fishing is a style as much as a bait.

You need to slow down and "work" the bait through the cover.  If you feel a little hang up, pause a moment, give it a chance to work it's way through.  You can't just rip a bait through heavy weeds.  No matter how weedless the rig, your gonna get hung up.

good luck and have fun.

avid

RoLo & avid

I fish a Texas Rig or Jig-N-Craw in any type of weed (vegetation);

The key to fishing vegetation is not to use any bait with a curl tail, once you bait contacts the vegetation shake it slowly until it slides through. Once the bait clears the vegetation be prepared to set hook because this is when the bass will attack your bait.

make weeds your friend!