Punching Grass Mats For Bass

Submerged vegetation and matted grass canopies provide bass shade from the hot sun and the perfect hiding spot to ambush baitfish.

Punching grass mats for bass.

Put up your dukes and start punchin. It s tough to reach these concealed bass with most lures that s where the punch rig comes in. A popular bass fishing technique that involves punching an artificial lure through thick vegetation that bass use as c. Major league fishing pro jared lintner loves punching grass mats for big bass.

In this video he s fishing lake seminole in the late winter early spring. When punching mats worry more about weight selection than lure selection. Punched his way through the thickest mats and tempted dormant bass into feeding the big weight little bait combo isn t new to floridians who call upon such unconventional tactics when cold fronts push bass into seemingly unreachable haunts. Bass fishing big worm makes sense for despino this month.

Dave wolak as summer begins to set in many bass will seek shelter and forage under various types of grass mats. Punching grass for hidden bass. Greg hackney puts on a clinic on punching mats for bass. Two bass fishing tactics are commonly used to pull big bass from massive grass mats throwing a hollow body frog for those fish willing to smash through the roof and punching through the grass for those holding below.

0 29 some of jared lintner s favorite things to flip punch. But the unveiling of such heavy cover schemes has. How to punch grass with jacob wheeler. He talks about the effect of cold fronts on spring bass and how he modifies working the bait his ch.