I have been heading to the Lake out in Collierville pretty frequintly and im still have problems. Im catching probably no more than 2 or 3 dinks a trip on average. The main problem is that everytime i throw something being a shakey head, finesse jig, swim jig, spinnerbait, carolina rig, texas rig, and even weightless, I keep pulling out hunks and hunks of grass. The water is low now which thought it would be better since alot of the grass line is dry by its still pretty bad. Any suggestions?

Chatterbait; Mann's Minus One type baits; topwaters; Cavitrons; RICOs; Pop-Rs; and experimenting with a lipless crankbait.

Have you thrown a wacky Senko and reel it back to yourself with a stop and go retrieve above the grass? A weightless or light weighted Anaconda? Trick worms?

Have you tried going deeper in the lake?

The bass will usually stay around the area where the grass is located but on your lake they may be holding deeper, rushing to the grass area to feed and then going back deep.

Keep fishing the lake and make notes between clear, bluebird sky days and cloudy days.  The bass may be moving more on cloudy days and going deep on clear days.

Your goal is to find the bait that swims above the grass that the bass in your lake are attracted to. 

Chatterbait; Mann's Minus One type baits; topwaters; Cavitrons; RICOs; Pop-Rs; and experimenting with a lipless crankbait.

Have you thrown a wacky Senko and reel it back to yourself with a stop and go retrieve above the grass? A weightless or light weighted Anaconda? Trick worms?

Have you tried going deeper in the lake?

The bass will usually stay around the area where the grass is located but on your lake they may be holding deeper, rushing to the grass area to feed and then going back deep.

Keep fishing the lake and make notes between clear, bluebird sky days and cloudy days. The bass may be moving more on cloudy days and going deep on clear days.

Your goal is to find the bait that swims above the grass that the bass in your lake are attracted to.

+1 to add fish for bigger fish.

Try a Texas rigged worm in lieu of a wacky rig. I smoked a bunch of boats one time fishing a tiny screw in weight, weedless rigged, skinny 8 " Manns Jelly style worm. They were all fishing those wacky rigs.

Its a medium size old gravel corry thats been turned into a pond. The grass is on the shallow part and goes out probably about 10 to 20 feet then it drops off. Anything with a treble hook has been a no go. The only thing ive caught fish on has been a Megastrike senko type that Roadwarrior gave me but ive run out and i dont have the money for even a pack of baits right now   :-[

Every fish I have ever caught out of that pond has been on a T-Rigged plastic!  Or weightless!  And the grass goes out about 20-30 yards not feet!  Cast far and have a slow presentation!

Jeff

Every fish I have ever caught out of that pond has been on a T-Rigged plastic! Or weightless! And the grass goes out about 20-30 yards not feet! Cast far and have a slow presentation!

Jeff

Yea i meant yards haha had a stupid moment there. I guess i need to change up from carolina and shakey head to texas rigged.

Flukes are one of the best things to try when nothing else wll get thru. Hold your rod tip straight up and fish it like a topwater bait . Just rig it weightless with a thick enough hook that it doesnt bend from the grass.

Flukes are one of the best things to try when nothing else wll get thru. Hold your rod tip straight up and fish it like a topwater bait . Just rig it weightless with a thick enough hook that it doesnt bend from the grass.

The Strike King Elaztec flukes float.  While I like my Super Flukes, I use these when I want to slow it way down on top.

would zoom flukes weightless or zoom baby fluke donkey doubled rigged work?

I use the salty super flukes. I like them much better then the regular flukes. Natural colors work best for me, anything that looks like baitfish. Alabama shiner is one of my fave colors. The strike king flukes are nice too but I never catch much with them for some odd reason so I still prefer the zoom.

fish the outside edges of the grass if you can figure out where that is.  I have had alot of luck latly doing that.

If you can't afford to buy baits try catching some live bait, nightcrawlers or shiners, grass will be no problem then.

My old man and I try to go out there every sunday. Caught a couple 2lbers, but he did catch a ~5lb on a red double willow spinner bait. Throwing past the grass line and letting it fall. Then bringing it back up. Caught her at the edge of the grass/drop off.

Ive been going every other sunday usually towards the end of the day