Yeah the most fun I had on that lake was straight across in the thick pads… we were pushing into them with a paddle, and would sit quiet… then spack the boat with the paddle and watch for the pads to move… they were soo thick you could watch the pads move like a little gps path… then stop. You flip/pitch a lizard with no weight just a weedless hook to th pad it stopped under. and pull it off and let it fall slowly into the face of the bass. we hammered them, and caught some big fuckers too. it was like hunting! lol