Whether guiding or leisure fishing, we’re always looking for the best available and most unique weed habitat and shallow cover differing from the rest of the fishery. Across many Wisconsin lake systems, some of our best summer season fishing locations are around impenetrable, heavily vegetated areas. Depending on the lake type (drainage or seepage), vegetation can range in sparse isolated patches to vast overgrowing expanses amassing several acres. Whatever the size, you can bet on largemouths frequenting them. Their habitats can be thick and rich with diverse emergent and submergent plant species. Another characteristic of them can be the abundance of timber and wood cover, and the element of protection from fishing pressure and the rest of the lake or river system. Other good water includes sparse grass, lily pads, overhanging trees and timber, and the dead ends of coves where emergent vegetation and debris has accumulated. Habitats are very shallow, often 5 ft. or less. Largemouths in the north will only use them seasonally, with late spring through summer being the timeline. The best areas will contain edges, deeper holes, and available open pockets an