Artie:

use different size worms on different types of rigs or even leadheads swimming them but I have to recommend lizards even bugs like cricket and dragon fly patterns top water variances on the readily available food supply found locallywhen you walk around the lake big moths or butterflies will work in heavily weeded or even mossed up lakes> I write this at least once a week but if you are fishing from the waters edge you are scaring away the biggest fish when you walk up fish from quite a ways back way before you walk up.

unmamfqlm:

All of your choices are pretty much right on the money although it depends on the temperature as well. You of course don’t want to be throwing a top water frog when the water is 40 degrees. One thing you didn’t mention was tube baits. I like working tubes a bit like I would work a jig through cover. Cast it out and let it sink then shake your rod tip while raising it then let it sink again. A lot of times when fish are being stubborn a tube will pull them out pretty well.

As Charlie said, you can’t go wrong with a curly tailed worm either. Texas Rigged thrown right in the middle of the cover will produce fish.

What about a shallow running crankbait? Bass will get down deep into the cover and wait for a nice meal to come by, normally a minnow or shad. Running a shallow running crank right above the weed line (if possible) will trigger a hit or 2.
Another fun little bait to run across a weedline are the Zoom Trick Worms. You fish them weightless and use a twitching retreive. The action of these things are very good in the water.

If the cover is too thick to run just above it, you just need to get down right in the middle of it. Again, the tubes are great for this but a jig has potential of doing quite well also. If it’s heavily weeded get you some thick line and a pretty stiff rod and fish a 3/4 ounce or 1/2 ounce jig. A nice sized jig rigged up with some kind of craw trailer is deadly in heavy cover.

One more setup you may give a shot is a Drop Shot Rig. I’m not sure if you are familiar with Drop Shotting but it’s a something a bit “different” than what the fish are used to seeing. It’s simply a weight attached to the line below your hook (rigged with an artificial stick worm). This setup allows the worm to float just above the bottom rather than the worm being fished directly on the bottom. The Senkos are awsome for Drop Shotting.

dumdum:

When the bite tapers off on the senko type worms I have found the Zoom Trick Worm and the Zoom Speed worm in the paddle tail version will produce fish for you. And I like to fish these lures rigged Texas style and weightless.Retrieve with light twitches of the rod tip.I love fishing the weeds with these lures. Another lure you may try would be the Zoom Baby Brush hog Rigged Texas style and with a sliding sinker. Strikes will come on the fall 90% of the time.