In the small farm ponds where I fish the water levels of the non-spring fed ponds has dropped tremendously. Which makes for a lot of hydrilla and other grasses. What we used to work around this (I love using a crankbait but pulled in more grass than anything with it) was to just use a simple worm hook, no weights, and a fluke rigged weedless. It worked beautifully as you would come to a patch of grass you could finesse the bait across the grass patches and you could make it drop in between the grass spots and pull it over them without catching any grass. We caught 17 bass that day in about 4 hours using almost only that. The water level at that particular pond was about 5 ft. low.
Pic below was the big one of the day.