Early morning or evening. Pop-R in baby bass color. Buzz bait in white. Spinner baits, frogs.
Daytime. Rapala husky jerk if not too weedy. Beatle spin, frogs in the pads, or 6" rubber worm in red/shad purple/shad colors pumpkin and motor oil work well too. Get the long curly tail style or spring lizzard. Texas rig with Hook-> weight-> bead -> small knot about 8" up from hook to stop the weight from going too far up the line.
Cast the worm across lilly pads and reel through them until you get to an opening, then let it sink. Probably need some heavier line to horse them out of the pads.
Don't be afraid to stir up the pads when the bite slows. I used to drive my boat through the pads to knock loose grass shrimp, and get the bait fish stirred up, then start catching bass. Oh and some sort of lunker lotion on the worm helps keep it from sticking to the pads and getting hung.