An inflatable would not be my first choice for a boat, but... if the water
is not very deep you may be able to use a long rod or pole stuck into the
bottom to tie to. Other wise you will have to anchor if you want o stay in
one spot. I personally prefer to use my trolling motor in ym bass boat to
keep me moving around likely locations to fish.

As to what to throw. I bounce crank baits, off of submerged trees all the
time. Sometimes I will hang up on one, but I have only lost one this year
that I couldn't get out. Some of the guys prefer to run a spinnerbait
thorugh the trees and bump them over branches. I have had some luck doing
this. With crank baits and spinner baits both I have had a number of bites
just after I come over a branch.

Both baits work fairly well in submerged grass as well with a spinner bait
being a little easier to tear through the grass. Personally I can adjust
the depth of a crank bait by as much as a couple feet by how fast I retireve
it and the attitude of the rod when I am cranking it in.

Another bait that is good in grass, but not usualy used in trees is a rattle
trap. It tends to hang up a lot more than lipped crank bait, but there are
a couple of rattle trap type baits that have a small lip or ridge on either
side of the head. Don't recall which ones as I don't tend to use a lipless
crank bait in trees myself. I do like them for grass.

Another couple of baits that can produce fish in trees are light weighted
( I like 1/16 oz) texas rigged worms cast out and dropped down through the
branches. I like a thinner worm matched to the water color for this slow
presentation. With translucent colors selected over solid colors in clear
or stained water. A wacky senko works for this as well, but I defiitely use
a weedless rigged hook for it. I hate the wire weedguard hooks. Warren
turned me onto the w.w.hook by reaction innovations for wacky rigging. I
like a Tru-Turn style hook by Daiichi for the t-rigged worm. When dropping
it through those branches I like the point burried deep in the worm to
reduce snags. The cam action of that hook helps me get a few more hook
sets.

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"Eric" wrote in message
om...
I bought a trolling motor for my inflation boat and a Humminbird
Smartcast fish finder and went out fishing for the first time over the
July 4 weekend.

We got to a place where the fish finder find so many fishes
under/around an area with many sub-merged trees. And we saw 2 big
basses jumped out of the water. But everytime we tried, we always
ended hook the trees. And the boat kept moving by the water current
and I need to power the trolling motor to slowing move back.

I'd appreciate any help or pointers.

Eric.