Bass over 13lbs in CA are mostly fish eaters.

The forage fish a 13lb bass eats seldom lives right in heavy cover.

13lb+ fish may live in and around heavy cover but it's not
important to cast your fish imitating lure in to that cover to get the bass to bite because they're not anticipating seeing food living down in that cover.

I'm generalizing, but the point is in most cases it's not real important to put a 8inch plus bait in to heavy cover to get bit. Just put it near it and if momma bass wants to eat, she will eat.

Also, most weedless swimbaits suck when it comes to hookup/landing ratio. Basstrix is the only one I throw with any regularity. And I don't use it to catch big bass. Mission fish does get bit by big bass but you lose most bites. I'm sure an 8inch weedless hudd would get bit like crazy but you'd lose most of those bites too.

If you like to get a lot of bites and don't care about losing most of them, knock yourself out.