Ok, I went to one of the ponds by my house today, the water was dirtier that it usually is. I went with a Big Tex colored Strike King Rodent rigged with a 1 ounce weight and 17 pound Berkley trilene Monofilament with a EWG Trokar hook and texas rigged the bait. I went over to some shallow brush that was sticking out of the water and repeadetly dropped and brough the Rodent in and out of the brush and when I hesistated the bait in the water column, towards the top of the water colun, I see a big flash and a mouth eat my bait, while this was happening I was talking to bassboy on the phone, so after seeing the flash I set the hook but the bass dove deeper in the brush (the water was about 1 foot) and broke me off. Then, I skipped my strike king ocho under a bush that was hanging over the water, got  bite, and once again broke off the bass. Then I went on to try to see if I had found a pattern, the bass being in shallow brush, by trying some more shallow brush and all I kep seeing is these big, bulging wakes coming out of the shallow water brush into deeper water. Any ideas on what I should do and what I did right and what I did wrong? I'm going back today. The water is pretty muddy in the pond.

Re-spool with heavier line

Buy some 50lb Power Pro braid and show that bass how to water ski back to you.  ;D

Check your line..

I've always tried to be more cautious of line after a few break offs. I have been using floroclear 15# and 20lb test with no problems. 

What you could do is not set the hook immediately but let him take some line.

or get that 832suffix and fix your problem altogether unless you set the drag too far down and break your rod

One of the problems I think was that I had my drag on my spinning reel set tp light and when i was trying to reel after feeling the bite and seeing the flash the bass was dfown at the base of the bush wrapping the line around it.