Question – Bass Lures From Shore Weedy Conditions

I’m recently back to fishing but I fish from shore. I’m in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota and I’m finding most of the lakes have some pretty dense weeds around the shore area. This limits the ability to cast most lures. I’m trying to figure out what to use, particularly to be able to cover some area without picking up weeds on every cast. One lure I have is a top water, Arbogast Jitterbug. I’ve also found some possibilities online such as the Heddon Moss Boss and the Megabass Dark Sleeper.

One guy I met at one of the lakes (Vadnais) had a lure with a painted weight head (sort of torpedo shaped) and a thick 6 inch white plastic worm body and a hook with a weed guard. Maybe it had a spinner blade also but I’m going by memory. Looked to be about 3/4 oz weight head. He says he casts it as far as he can and then just reels it in and it can power through the weeds. He says he’s caught bass with it at this lake. I couldn’t find anything like it online.

I hope some of you can give me some advice and suggestions on lures that might work under these weedy shore conditions.

I am also up for trying to make some of these using weighted heads, hooks, blades, and plastic bodies. I can make the basic Texas rigged worm. But that doesn’t quite fit the bill of a lure to long cast and cover lots of water.

Thanks,
Bob P

Sounds like he was using a Texas rigged worm.
Just Google texas rigs and weedless bass jigs, swim jigs and all sorts of things like that.
Obviously regular raps are no good in that situation.
You can also rig up a senko and or jig head with the hook point covered in the worm, craw, lizard, or what ever plastic your using. You tube is your friend in this situation

I’m pretty sure it wasn’t just a Texas rigged worm. The weight head was painted and had an eye (not a sliding torpedo weight). The worm was attached right to it. The hook had a weed guard that was bent to hook to the barb. I don’t know if it was something he bought complete or rigged himself. But I understand the idea.

I’ve never did much lure rigging or inventing so it’s going to be new to me. I guess my “fear” is that I’ll rig up stuff that has no chance of catching anything.

As you suggest, I’ll do much more youtube searching to see what others are doing.

Thanks,
Bob P.

Rats! Rats! Swim jig. Moss Boss. Johnson Silver Minnow with a trailer.

Best advice….get wet. The water is super warm right now so wade out. I’ve had good luck wading into city lakes and fishing weed pockets. Wade out through the first weed line and get after it.

I like a quarter ounce weed less jig head and a creature bait…..throw it into pockets and let it sink slow. Burning small spinners over the weeds can be good too.

Good idea. That will work in most lakes. Though, it’s not allowed in Vadnais, the lake I’ve been recently fishing because it’s a water supply. So you can’t go into the water at all.

Try an All-Terrain Grassmaster jig – 3/8 to 1/2 oz… but have at least a MH if not a Heavy Rod to retrieve the lure though heavier cover…