Super-shallow vegetation is often overlooked and less pressured but can certainly hold big bass. When I say super shallow, we’re talking 2 feet of water or less with the trolling motor kicking up mud. Often it’s a confidence thing where many anglers just don’t believe a bass could be sitting in 6 inches of water. Other times, that depth range of the cover lies at the back of a flat and is sheltered by another 500 feet of dense vegetation like lily pads, coontail, milfoil, dollar lilies or hydrilla.
In those situations, anglers typically fish the outside edge and maybe stick the nose of their boats into the cover, but they rarely plow through to reach the far stretches. It’s not uncommon for the fish to feel that pressure and push back farther into the vegetation to seek refuge in the shallows.
