What's a good weedless lure can cover water quickly from the banks?

[mjk86]

Well....bank fishing should immediately rule out high dollar jerk baits unless your fishing very open water, or your cool with losing 10 of em in a trip.  Ned rigs....well once again, unless your fishing open water its gonna get hung up or youll need to swim it (which does work...i just dont use that half a zinker deal..a small swimbait is what i prefer).  Fast or slow, if your bank fishing you will have your best luck swimming baits.  If your dead set on fishing the bottom from the bank, a texas rig something is very effective.  A weightless wacky worm is also very effective, but the technique is casting it out,  letting it sink to the bottom, wait, shake, wait, reel in quickly and do it again.  If you try to retrieve it like a texas rig worm youll get hung up.  

[Al Agnew]

If covering water that isn't more than 6 feet deep or so and has plenty of snags, my first choice would be a soft jerkbait like a Zoom Superfluke, rigged weightless on an extra wide gap worm hook, size 4/0, Texas rigged and skin-hooked in the back.  Almost completely snag less, throw it anywhere, twitch it fast or slow down as needed to let it sink into good looking spots.  Pretty easy to fish it in the upper half of the water column, can be paused long enough to let it drop to the bottom.  If you need to cover water a little deeper, just put a big split shot about 6 inches up the line...lets it sink quickly but still keeps all the action when twitched along the bottom, and doesn't too much affect the snaglessness.  Just keep in mind that you need a rod with some backbone to set the hook when the thing is balled up in a big bass's mouth, and/or use braided line so there's no line stretch when setting hooks.

[Jerry Rapp]

6 hours ago, Al Agnew said:

If covering water that isn't more than 6 feet deep or so and has plenty of snags, my first choice would be a soft jerkbait like a Zoom Superfluke, rigged weightless on an extra wide gap worm hook, size 4/0, Texas rigged and skin-hooked in the back.  Almost completely snag less, throw it anywhere, twitch it fast or slow down as needed to let it sink into good looking spots.  Pretty easy to fish it in the upper half of the water column, can be paused long enough to let it drop to the bottom.  If you need to cover water a little deeper, just put a big split shot about 6 inches up the line...lets it sink quickly but still keeps all the action when twitched along the bottom, and doesn't too much affect the snaglessness.  Just keep in mind that you need a rod with some backbone to set the hook when the thing is balled up in a big bass's mouth, and/or use braided line so there's no line stretch when setting hooks.

this!

[Smallieguy87]

how about a texas rigged 4-5' grub? They're easy to find and a lot of different companies make them. They catch all manner of fish but 4-5' is best for bass or larger game fish. You can even use the grub as a poor mans buzzbait by keep your rod tip and speeding your retrieve until the tail of the grub is flapping on the surface and this can be done even when texas rigged provided your weight used isn't heavy. A grub can be used to cover a lot of water much like a spinner bait can as well. If by chance you do get hung up and broke off you're usually loosing a little less money then you would with a spinner.

[Buzz]

I do quite a bit of bank fishing when I have only a few hours to burn. My go to baits are spinnerbaits, square bills, buzzbaits, and flukes. All are mostly weedless and will cover water quickly, if you keep them from wrapping around something above water, like I usually do, you won't lose many. If I find a few fish I'll drop back to a jig & craw to further dissect the area.

[bagofdonuts]

if your fishing weedy cover for bass. can't beat a swim jig. i like the hack attack heavy cover swim jig with a swim fluke trailer, rage tail trailer also works good. it'll go thru just about anything. you can chunk and wind just like a spinner bait or change trailers and pitch it. you'll never have to change lures.

[buckcreekmike]

This may not be good covering water extremely quickly, but for fishing weedy/mossy areas, like ponds I like to use a weightless slug-go. Extremely weedless and catch fish. 

[LarrySTL]

I agree with the fluke or sluggo, but if there is a fair amount of weed cover or pads, or if you just want to get huge adrenaline rushes, throw a weedless frog some.  Yes you'll want heavier line, quite probably braid, but you can work it fairly briskly and the strikes are usually explosive.