What do you recommend from shore when there's dense algae/weed mats
close to most of the accessible shore?


If your talking about algae, it will stick to anything, weather its "weedless"
or not. What I do is look of holes in the mat and cast fall-type lures
(Senkos, tubes, jigs, etc). If the holes are fairly big, its easy, but
sometimes your casting to an opening thats only 4 or 5 inches across. Give the
lure plenty of slack line and let it fall, and once it hits bottom, let it sit
for a bit, at least 30 seconds or so. Watch the line and if it moves at all,
take in the slack and set the hook. If nothing happens, you can try jigging
the lure a bit, then pull it out, reel in, remove the slime from it, and try
again.
If the weed/algae mat is really thick and dense and has no openings, I
take an old anchor on a rope and tos it out and use the rope to pull it back
in. The algae and weeds get pulled along by the rope and you can make tempoary
lanes in the slop. Now you can use any type of lure you want in the open
lanes, but this only work if its not windy.

-Zimmy