Not sure where to post this lures? outing?

I fished yesterday for about 6hrs. The weather had cooled of to approx 79 for a couple of days down from 85-88.

 The lake has tons of downed timber and is known as a tough lake to catch bass. Pros even had trouble who visited recently.

 The water is normal looking lake water not clear. I didn't start untill around 12:30pm and tried the timber ( all near shore ) and had zero luck.

    Later I found some submerged grass in maybe 8-10ft of water that is getting close to the much deper 50' dam area. The grass was kind of spindley and kind of looks like a single but softer evergreen skinny branch but farther down the stalk it has multiple branches. The weeds were a couple of inches from the surface. I tried a white fluke and had some nice bites but no hookup.

I tried a green pumpkin senko and nothing, tried a topwater popper nothing.

 Even with the Fluke weedless you still would drag back some weeds about 40% of the time so I figured a crank bait was out.  

I did mess up I should have tried the grass lines as it was very defined on both sides.

 What else could I have tried in the weeds?

Thanks in advance

FFI AKA - Matt Crum

Frog!!!

A T-rigged worm or a spinnerbait would have been great!

A T-rigged worm or a spinnerbait would have been great!

+100

With the weeds under the surface and not matted I would've definitely started throwing a Buzzbait to see if there are any aggressive fish around. I also like to use a floating Rat L Trap or spinnerbait, again looking for aggressive fish. I would also work the outside edges of the weeds, both with a spinnerbait or Rat L Trap (not the floater) looking to see if the fish are cruising along the outside edges. As I move along I'm definitely looking for openings, pockets, points, in the weeds along with isolated weed beds. If I'm not getting any takers on the reaction baits I'll start keying on openings in the grass, timber intermixed with the grass or thick grass next to thinner and start pitching or flipping a straight tail worm into those areas with at least a 1/2oz sinker attached. If you use some fish formula type bait attractant and really lather up the worm it's less likely to want to cling to the weeds. Even then it's tough not to wind up dragging some back with you.

One last thing. If there's an inside edge to those weeds, it can be killer at certain times of the day, usually morning and evening.

 Why a T-rig vs the weightless? I figured bottom would be bad as the weeds seemed more dense at the bottom just spindly at the top.

 I was worried that a spinnerbait might get caught in a bunch fo the stuff. Trying to keep a spinner bait in 2"s of water seemes impossible.

I did forget that I did try a spinner albeit a crappy type small underspin to help stay higher up.

Re the frog I thought about it but figured I had already tried the popper which is kind of frog imitatiing I figured.

I'll definately take the advice and give them a try though.

What about a weedless jig and plastic very slow working the weeds?

Also to be clearer The weeds started about 30yards from shore and ran perfectly parallel to the shorline out about 30yards wide out to about 60yards. I did mess up I should have tried both edges more with crankbaits and a swimbait.

Thanks for the replies

FFI - AKA Matt Crum