Largemouths in particular live and feed in the sloppiest-slop and nastiest soup imaginable. Nothing s too shallow or too thick. The technique is fairly simple. Step one begins by chucking a weedless surface bait into the thick stuff. Rats and frogs work, but I prefer Northland s JawBreaker Spoon in this exploratory role.
JawBreakers are fully weedless and they can be fished fast.
Make long casts and use straight, rapid retrieves, occasionally hesitating over openings. Bass react quickly to the commotion and boil, sometimes getting hooked, but just making an appearance is enough exposure. Occasionally, bass will attack with such intensity that they ll blow their own hole through the slop. Now you ve got a window. Step one was the setup, now comes the close.