Grass

[Bassboss]

No matter where you are in the country it seems like grass is often times a major factor in locating and catching bass. Most of my bass fishing life has been spent around grass. And I know the lakes up here are full of them in the summer. From just looking at satellite pictures of the lakes, it looks like you could walk across the mats of milfoil (apparently it's an invasive grass here) and hydrilla that develops when the water really starts to warm.

So I thought it might be interesting to see what you guys like to throw through out the year in grassy lakes.

In Florida I always had luck ripping a burning a spinnerbait over the tops of the grass just barley ticking them, if I hit a long stock I'd rip it out the strike would usually occur then.

When the water started warming and fish started getting more lethargic, I'd toss a senko around the still submerged grass, and on the grass line and let it settle in the grass, and just lift it out.

If that didn't produce a light un-pegged 6" or 7" taxes rigged worm, or lizard on a 3/16 oz or less weight and straight shank worm hook produced allot of good fish included a PB. I'd drag it along untill it hit a tough stalk and I'd rip it free. Buzz frogs also produced there fair share of fish.

When water temps started dropping again, and the grass started to die back down, a shaky head trick worm rigged on a light 1/8 oz ball head fished around grass edges picked off the last fish of the year.

Other things took some fish, like frogs, jigs, and topwaters, but those were main ones...