 Well guess what? It's Thursday once again. You know what that means. Time for fishing tips on this week's segment. Ray and Manny tell you everything you need to know about fishing in the weeds. Today we're going to talk a little bit about the importance of fishing in the weeds and around the weeds. It's probably one of the most frustrating things for people who don't do a lot of fishing is they probably stay away from the weeds in the summer. A lot of our summer tourists, people come up and maybe we'll bob our fish along the edges of them but they often don't go into the weeds and we think that's something that you really need to understand a little bit about why it's important to learn to fish the weeds. Let's backtrack a little bit. They're not weeds, they're submerged vegetation but the the veg is where they're at. Everything is going to be in that vegetation one. On a sunny day you know the sun's penetrating down fish don't have eyelets. They can't squit. They don't have sunglasses. They're going to go wherever they have cover so they can get some protection from the sun. Two, the food chain's there. The macro invertebrates to the minnows to the pan fish all the way up there's ready available food plus there's cover. They can hide in there, they can hang out in there, they can you know hunt for other fish in there. So don't think that oh I got hung up in the in the weeds or the submerged vegetation again or I don't want to fish it. You really need to learn how. One of the easiest things to do is to buy weedless products things that will skim through the weeds so if you want to cast into like weedless daredevils, weedless plugs working into the actual vegetation. I still call a weed she calls a vegetation but to work right into the thick of it because that's where they are. Another thing that is very common with professional anglers is they'll go in and visually find where the where the vegetation's thinner and that's where they go in and maybe use flippin sticks or different baits just to cast into those little pockets where the weeds and the vegetation is not as thick. You don't always have to fish right in the the vegetation line itself. I suggest starting on the inside of the veg and pitching that line with with plastics or jigs or anything. If you're not getting anything move to the outside of that vegetation line pull off a little bit and cast to the outside of it you're guaranteed to catch fish. Fishing weeds or fishing vegetation it's a great place to find those fish. I'm Rick Gilbaugh with the Niswa Guides League and I'm Andy Eric the bass and biologist. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland news please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.