WEEDLESS & WEIGHTLESS

First light rears its head over the most perfect shallow, rocky, weed-strewn ground you can imagine for bass fishing. The water is calm and clear and the hunch you can’t ignore is that this is exactly the right situation for fishing with soft plastics, rigged weedless and weightless; the quiet, more subtle, approach to go with location and conditions. I clip my lure on, launch it out there, and start to deftly fish it back with a simple twitch, twitch, pause, style of retrieve. A few casts later there is very suddenly a hard tap on your rod tip. You twitch the weedless and weightless rigged soft plastic once more and then everything goes delightfully tight