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Texas rigged worm either weightless or with a pegged sinker. We would toss a weightless worm in open spots but the weighted worm we would drop into every hole we could and just jig it up and down a bit. Never cast far but just tediously probe every hold the size of a quarter or bigger in the matted algae.
I was there on Thursday evening and was fishing from 5-9. I had multiple blue gill chasing jigs that I was casting out but didn't catch any. My dad caught a monster carp thoughI had my new kayak out at Kirk pond for the second time in a week. It was toward the end of the day and I could see bass actively feeding along the weeds and between the surface and the weed mat 6-10 inches down (total depth was 3-6ft). They wouldn't take anything. I couldn't get a Texas rig through the mat, so I started fishing them weightless. I pulled them (green/black plastic worm and a 'critter') across the weed mat slowly with some twitching and quicker pulls to get their attention. I got one bite on that. I also tried a Hula Popper frog. Time before, I tried a mouse. Nothing. I pulled the presentations right in front of several fish. On the way back to the put in, I spooked four or five bass going through the area I had already fished so I know they were there.Anybody got tips for picky ditch pickles in weed choked ponds?