When you watch fishing videos when the host gets weeds on his lure, he does a quick shake and pull, and it's gone?  And when you get weeds on your lure, it's like getting gum out of your kid's hair?

Depends on the type of grass. Filamentous algae, or moss as I like to call it, tend to be the worse. Pretty rare to be able to rip it off, usually won't even smack loose, has to be cleared by hand. 

45 minutes ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Depends on the type of grass. Filamentous algae, or moss as I like to call it, tend to be the worse. Pretty rare to be able to rip it off, usually won't even smack loose, has to be cleared by hand. 

Set the rod aside - let it dry - and BURN IT OFF.

 

I hate that stuff - more so when I had to identify the exact species through taxonomy when I was taking my aquatic biology classes...do you have any IDEA how many different species of that 'muck' there are?

1 minute ago, MN Fisher said:

Set the rod aside - let it dry - and BURN IT OFF.

 

I hate that stuff - more so when I had to identify the exact species through taxonomy when I was taking my aquatic biology classes...do you have any IDEA how many different species of that 'muck' there are?

I know that we have several different colors, so I assume they're all different species. They vary from bright lime green, to nearly black. The black variety is the toughest to remove. The kind grows in a lake where the residents use to empty their gray water directly into the lake, not sure if that's why it grows there or not. 

7 minutes ago, Bluebasser86 said:

The black variety is the toughest to remove. The kind grows in a lake where the residents use to empty their gray water directly into the lake, not sure if that's why it grows there or not. 

Yep - that whole group of algae grows best when there's an excess of nutrients in the water...gray water is LOADED with the kind of stuff they love.

6 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

I know that we have several different colors, so I assume they're all different species. They vary from bright lime green, to nearly black. The black variety is the toughest to remove. The kind grows in a lake where the residents use to empty their gray water directly into the lake, not sure if that's why it grows there or not. 

The kind I have is dark green. It is low in the water, near the bottom.  Sometimes I nearly break the line trying to get it off.

Then we also have that brown , matting algae on top. Fish pick up a bait, swim off under it , and you cant tell exactly where they  are so hooksets are difficult. All it takes is one little piece between your line and the fish and your hookset is off.

As far as nutrients, we have lots of geese- ‘nuff said.

Our one spot goes total coverage on the entire headwaters for about a mile downstream. Its the farms up at the headwaters, fertilizer runs in when it rains hard. 

This is gonna be unpopular with some people but I hate fishing thick grass\weeds. I'm not saying its unproductive because its not but it is often times a PITA. It really limits the amount of baits you can throw unless you wanna pick weeds off all day. Also I never liked reeling in a bass smothered in weeds...its heavy, awkward and the fish can't even fight. My local pond is grass free luckily for me...everything else within an hour of me has alot of vegetation. This doesn't mean that I won't go out to a grass filled pond and smack some frog fish because I absolutely will. But if the bite is as good on a weed free pond as a weed full I will pick the weed free pond 100% of the time.

I spent a couple hours this morning removing Eel grass and some weed that looks like a 6' green spaghetti noodle off my buzzbaits. 8 or 9 out of every 10 cast was fouled. Good times!

2 hours ago, GreenPig said:

I spent a couple hours this morning removing Eel grass and some weed that looks like a 6' green spaghetti noodle off my buzzbaits. 8 or 9 out of every 10 cast was fouled. Good times!

That's when I grab a Horny Toad and get busy.