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I’m hoping someone can help me out in identifying this grass. I live in the New Orleans area and it’s prominent in most areas I fish around the Louisiana Delta. I’ve looked at tons of pics of different species online, but I can’t figure out the exact one. I was thinking it is either coontail or milfoil, but I could definitely be wrong lol. Thank is advance for the help!

I fish a lot of heavily pressured ponds with clear water and lots of submerged vegitation. I’m planning on trying to fish down in the roots of the vegetation with jigs and Texas rigs. My question is would you recommend starting off with jigs/worms with rattles or without rattles? Normally I think of rattles being more for muddy water but I’m curious if it will help the fish find the lure down in the grass. Where would you start?

I have recently been trying to get into shaky head fishing. I typically fish medium sized ponds in the northeast that are loaded with heavy grass. At any point on the pond, almost every cast I pull up a couple pounds of grass. I use the slow drag and shake technique along with a straight tail worm. Can anyone recommend a specific shaky head jig that comes trough the heavy grass well. Any other tips will also be appreciated. Thanks!

where I fish there is lots of vegetation on the bottom so it's rlly hard to throw any kind of jerk bait or crank bait. I would love to know color suggestions and new ways to rig worms.

I'm going to fish a small lake in Tennessee with grass mats. No, I don't know what kind of grass it is; I just know the lake has grass mats. The mats go out about 10-20 feet wide from shore and I don't know how thick they are. I've never fished a grass mat in my life, but have watched about 10 How-To videos. I was going to take a variety of punch weights, up to 1.5 ounces. I have a variety of top water frogs and soft plastic punch baits. I was going to use 65lb braid and my strongest rods. I have bobber stoppers, so I was going to go with a palomar knot, unless you guys give me reasons to go with a snell knot. I saw a prior post on this site talking about fishing the edges of the mats by deep water first, then punching through the mat. I'll mix in some top water too to see if they are suspending high in the water column. Am I on the right track? Do you have any advanced tips that have helped you fish a grass mat? I'll take any info you're willing to share with me. Thanks!

Hey y'all, I'm used to fishing grass hangovers in deep water, as in a thick grass line extending into the water in deep areas. Don't get me wrong, I love timber, lily pads, and all structure, but for some reason the bass love those grass hangover areas the most. I have a couple tournaments coming up on Lake Conroe and I'd love to fish grass hangovers. I've tried searching that lake but all I can seem to find is "mine fields" of tree trunks sticking up, deep or shallow water (haha). Any help please?

So as my bass fishing fever grows a little more each day, I decided to do some research on my local pond/lagoon system I fish in NOLA City Park. The water here is full of vegetation, so I figured knowing exactly what was there, and more specifically what was in different areas would be a plus. I've identified 7 different types of vegetation, but I'm not sure about this last one. I'd appreciate any input.

In my backyard is an almost 2 acre pond w a small island, the west side of the pond is shallow, namely one to three feet, minus a few spots near the dam. There are a good number of grass beds in these shallow flats, and a good bit of down timber. the north side of the island gets decent morning sun, while the south side is much more covered/shaded. I can fish from the bank just north of the island, and found a bluegill hole just past the grass bed. I also stand up paddle board fish the pond to access other areas. The water stays stained for the most part w visibility around 1 foot, getting very muddy after a storm, and remaining for a few days. I've been tossing square-bills in the shallows with pretty good success the past two weeks. Ive also caught two 5-1/2 pounders this year, one on texas rig baby brush hog, the other 1/2 oz double willow spinner. A few on the whopper plopper 130, but no hogs. My brother in law caught a nice 5-6 lb on rapalla pop-r late evening early summer, and my father in law a citation crappie yo-yoing a shad swimbait late evening about a month ago. Ive attached a pic with depths. Just looking for some general tips on what to throw and what retrieve to use to go after some hogs, any areas stick out to you? Are any Lunkers down deep during fall? Possible there are some catfish in there? What would be the best time to fish now that its fall? Better to hit the sunny side or the shade? Would a slip float and live bait produce? Thanks in advance!

My home lake has a lot of bank beaters, and there is really not much deep water structure. I'm wanting to give punching and flippin' cypress trees a break and start fishing the huge grass flats that the lake has. Any tips on how to attack giant grass flats that run anywhere from 2ft-4ft? For example, 1. What to look for? any subtleties? 2. Bait choice? (square bill, trap, chatter bait, fluke).... 3. When to move? 4. Cast in the grass or parallel it? 5. Work top of grass? middle? or bottom? ( how to attack each zone?) These are just a few that i can think of, but any tips that y'all have would be great. Thanks guys.

I live in central Florida and fish the Kissimmee Chain mainly and if you know this chain, you know how much grass, pads, and hydrilla there is. I LOVE to fish a heavy cover swim jig, mainly a 1/2 oz. Gambler Heavy Cover Swim Jig with an EZ Swimmer trailer. Heavy grass, heavy rods, heavy line. For those of y'all that fish this, what's your preferred Rod?! I'm looking for the right one, I love Halo and Fitzgerald rods.

Hello, I'm fishing in Florida,from the bank. The lake is full of grass ,I'm fishing text.rig, lipless crankbaits even tried a chatter bait. Every cast I caught weeds, sometimes I couldn't even see my lure. I saw fish jumping but I just couldn't find the technique or color need for a catch. Now the grass I pulled in was green and crisp but it was so much, it took me out of the fishing mood . The water was dark not muddy but I couldn't see more than a foot or two, can anyone help me with what i should be doing when fishing this area, as well as lure colors. P.S. I haven't slept good since my trip I need to find out what I did wrong I feel helpless . Thanks for all your help

I hope this topic hasn't been beat to death but one of the ponds I regularly fish is infested with thick hydrilla. I mean it is literally carpeted over with the stuff with very little open areas. Topwater frogging works okay at times but as it keeps getting warmer its just getting thicker and thicker. I want to fish the bottom of this pond because that's where the big girls seem to be but you can't get to them! Punching through with a bullet sinker and brush hog works okay but its dang aggravating. I know there are some big bass in this pond because I've seen them when the grass wasnt as thick. Aside from getting my hands on a half dozen grass carp I'm stumped. Any tips or tricks from anyone?

Well since cabin fever has already led me to learn knife making and set up a forge and even try ice fishing....let me go further off the deep end here before I finally have a chance to go fishing. Hang with me here, it gets better. LETS RANT ABOUT LAWNS AND HOW THEY RUIN FISHING! LAwns are a $40 billion industry. They use 75 million pounds of pesticides annually and devour more than 10 times the amount of insecticides and fertilizer than farmland. And since 10,000 gallons on water are used per 1,000 square feet of lawn, they account for 30-60% of urban fresh water usage....the result: fishing is ruined. Those chemicals wash into the pond and kill off all the amphibians/frogs very quickly (there goes some of a bass' favorite snacks) and cause massive algae growth. Now a couple of things can happen here. The algae could outgrow the plants, build up, then die off, depriving the lake of oxygen as it decays, killing off a crap ton of fish. We may step in instead and dump more chemicals into the lake to kill the algae....and really ensure that all those pesky, mildly necessary amphibians are dead too....as well as crustaceans/mollusks who are vulnerable to components in algaecides like copper. (More fish food dead...YAY!) Hold onto your pants folks, because this is where things get really fun. Fertilizers cause an accelerated buildup of pond scum, actually aging the pond at an incredible rate. Normally a pond transitions slowly from Rocky and cool to fairly mucky with plant life, then to chocolate milk, (think Louisiana waters) into marshland. With fertilizers being drained into them, they age faster than that nephhew you haven't seen in three years. (Seriously, last time I saw him he wanted a Nerf gun for Christmas, now he demands an iPhone or Samsung! To which I say "I'm not gonna buy you an iPhone, cause you ask for it, cause you need one...you don't...) ) This process makes the habitat unsuitable for the fauna far too quickly....killing them. (I think you've noticed a theme here by now) Of course there is also the weekly crop of rotting, ammonia creating, oxygen depleting grass clippings. Yet somehow, none of this ranks as the saddest of the facts. Imagine the beauty our forefathers must have seen when they first came here. Sunset painted lakes where mink bounded, dancing on fallen trees to the the music of whipporwhills and bullfrogs and the splashes of pike as turtles floated lazily at the surface of mirrorlike water, each one like a pebble, forming a step-stone path to paradise. A place where dragonflies caught mosquitos on the wing, doing their acrobatics as much to catch prey and perform for suitors as to avoid the multitudinous flocks of birds that gave a sweeter, soprano melody to the bass of leopard frogs. Where there is cut grass less than 2 inches, there are no minks, no garter snakes, no mice, few frogs, sparse crawfish, rare grasshoppers, no crickets, only the occasionally water strider...oh to name the loss of insect life alone would take days, but to name every food bass can utilize that would be lost...would be a tragic endeavor. A lawn is not an ecosystem. It is non-native, European cool species plants, not designed for our climate. Cutting it just makes it grow thicker, so that no other plants can get through. So that no diversity can add natural nourishment to the soil, like the humble clover plants, dutifully adding nitrogen to the soil, that for doing so, are rewarded only with poison. Cutting it prevents it from seeding itself and providing food (seed) Watering it in the heat of summer when it goes dormant....only to cut it, leaves bare ground with no cover for mice, snakes, grasshoppers, etc. You're all fisherman, so what happens to animals without cover and food? A lawn is the antithesis of an ecosystem, but the frustrating part is when it is put next to a pond, it masquerades as one. Children can grow up and learn to think that it is. Call my mindset an anachronistic luxury, but I'd rather bushwack to the pond without poison, the one I can call an ecosystem...a piece of forgotten wild. At least, I will when I take that nephew for the first time. He deserves to walk that step-stone path to paradise through the fallen trees and hear the call of the blackbird and whipporwhill, before it is replaced by pavement walkways, cut grass, and the sound of garter snake-mulching lawnmowers. *sigh*

So I've read numerous articles about fishing diving and lipless crankbaits over grassbeds so that the bait is ticking the tops of the grass/weeds. obviously you expect to get hungup some and you are suposed to rip the bait out and thats what entices the strike. I've always wondered if pieces of hydrilla or millfoil on a treble hook deturs a bass from biting? Anytime I feel my bait come incontact with grass, and then it alters its wobble or feels heavier, I quickly reel it in to remove the grass. Anyone know if a piece of grass on a bait will prevent a bass from biting? obviously a crankbait or even a worm with grass looks less natural, right? So how does one exactly tick the top of the grass beds, get hung up and rip it free with out grass being caught on the treble hooks and still get bites? Any advice, tips and know-how would be Awesome!! thanks!

Any one have any tips for fishing Lake Guntersville during the warm summer months? I was thinking crankbaits, carolina rigs, and football jigs around deep structure. But what about fishing weedlines?

Here is my dilema. I have been fishing Pond 1 at Fort Stewart, GA for a couple years now and have been unsuccessful at bringing up a fish over 4lbs. I am not sure what I am doing wrong but it's definately not working. I have beat the banks with everything and although I catch quanity I don't catch quality. It's not that there aren't quality fish in there, because there are. Look at Fort Stewart's fishing pictures if you don't believe me. Here's the setup. In the back of the lake is a shallow flat where I have caught a few pound to 2 pound fish but not as many as I catch in the front of the lakes. Mostly I catch the fish on a fluke near the grass beds, however I have caught them on everything else. There is hardly any deep water structure. There are a few tree's thrown in the water but they don't produce that many fish for some reason. When I throw a crankbait and try to make contact with the bottow of the lake it gets filled with slimy moss that kills the action on my crankbait. I am not sure how to approach this lake in regards to finding big fish. Any Ideas? I will attach a picture of the lakes layout.

I have always fished a plastic worm weedless without a weight in shallow areas right on the submerged grass line, never dared to attempt to cast into the grass because i just never wanted to deal with the hang ups and just all the mess. All day though I have been thinking that that is where i have been going wrong this entire time. I started thinking to myself early this morning that i have to start adding bullet weights and start actuallly using a texas rig to start catching bigger bass. Than i started to think to myself is it possible to actually fish a texas rig in thick, heavy submerged grass? i was just wondering what everyones opinion is on this and would appreciate any help at all, Thanks! -Tilley

Hey guys, Does anyone know anything about Lake Seminole? I fish the college series and we have a FLW College Series Qualifier coming up on Lake Seminole on Mar. 24th out of Bainbridge, GA. Any advice will help. I've never been to or see the lake! Thanks, Ryan