New thought on using real weeds..

[catflisher]

I posted before about using thick black line down your fishing hole to position your camera, so you can find your lure when suspended...New thought....Drill one hole for camera, and drill another about 6 feet away for the real weeds..Now place a hole right between them...Thats the hole you fish from...Line camera up on the weeds..( Maybe rig a line so the weeds suspend a foot or so off bottom )..Now you drop your lure down and have the camera right on your lure..This would also help if you wanted to move up or down a few feet...Even better, link 2 sets of realweeds so they make a 10 foot long string...then you can move up and down the water column and allways be able to line your camera to the weeks...So, you allways have your bait in sight...My 3 scents...

[RonWBasser]

I tried my other brand of weeds today. This was my second attempt because on my first attempt I didn't have enough weight on them to even sink them down. I had to put two of them together to get them up to the fish I was fishing, crappies 24 ft at 8ft off the bottom (took 7 ounces to get them to barely sink). I did my holes the way you explain, easy to see everything. The only problem I had was that the fish vanished on me once I got the weeds down.

All I use on mine is a 2 foot chunk of the round kids floatly foam stuff to wrap it around when done. While fishing I just loop it through a notch cut in the end to hold it in place.

Just my three cents.

[harvey lee]

With the LaDredege weed products, one can adjust the weeds to anywhere one would like them to be off the bottom. They also offer enough weight to drop them all the way to the bottom.

I have had fish slide out to the sides a bit as the weeds drop. Once things settle down from them dropping, the fish seem to alwys come back. I have had good luck with weeds holding fish in my area.

Now, I will also say that in a lake with no structure or weeds, they do seem to work a bit better for me in regards to attracting and holding fish near by. After that, its my job to catch them and offer the correct bait or color of bait that they are searching for.