How would you fish it?

[bornhunter04]

The main lake i fish is a 25 acre county park lake. Earlier in the year it was filling up with grass until it was treated about 2 months ago, no everything but some duckweed has been killed off. So now theres lots of thick dead grass, but its starting to thin out. Started fishing from the kayak about that same time, was fishing from the bank before and could barely cast past the grass it was getting so thick at that point.

 

The fishing was good ealier in the year but the last week has been much tougher. Its also highly pressured. I fish it 1 or 2x / week.

 

The way ive been able to semi consistently catch fish is by soaking a trig 10" worm in shady spots around wood. But today was a grind, rain on friday and sat. Night. been war, mid 80s all week. Lots of rain previous weekend. The lake is high as it can be.  Has multpile water inlets where other ponds feed it. 

 

What would you look for to fish it? No electronics so other than hitting all the same spots (wood) is there anything i should do differently? Been fishing slower with softplastics. Theres still some duckweed that gets blown around and accumulates in different spots depending on prevailing wind.

 

Theres a fountain on the north end and a set of 3 aerators in the north east corner. The d**n is on the north end and it gets deep quick from the d**n. I tried scouting with google earth for a time when the water was low but no luck.

 

Thanks.

 

 

[TnRiver46]

25 acres? I wouldn’t fish it at all! But if I was forced to, I would throw weightless plastic worms, they outshine all other pond baits I’ve ever tried 

[Koz]

At only 25 acres its easy to cover the entire basin, especially in a kayak. In hot weather look for bass to stage in deeper water near the aerators. In hot weather I've found baitfish near aerotors, and even found bass taking cover underneath them.

 

Look for stream inlets and outlets, then since you don;t have electronics assume there's a creek bed between the two. Bass will hunker down there as well. But I would just fish the entire thing, note time of day and weather, and make notes.

[Sphynx]

Lots of water brings rising levels, those fish will be pushed as far up the bank as they can hunting the new ground, as far as the grass dying off, the fish are still going to look for some form of cover or structure to relate to, if they don't have grass they will find other structure, rock piles, wood, grass mats you can either punch through or else fish the tops/edges of, since you have nice temperatures your fish should be relatively active so you can probably find some success in the mats with a frog, or by banging either a squarebill or spinnerbait through whatever hard cover is available, lots of options, just keep trying stuff until you see a pattern. 

[GreenPig]

I'd target the incoming water first and then fish what looks good shallow with a Chatterbait, Spinnerbait, Super Fluke, and Stickworm. 

[Biglittle8]

3 hours ago, Koz said:

In hot weather I've found baitfish near aerotors, and even found bass taking cover underneath them

This☝️... I've had good luck in these areas, they tend to be more oxygen rich. I use a Chatterbait, jig or wacky rig.

[bornhunter04]

Thanks guys. Havent been able to get them to hit a moving bait consistently in awhile, they always seem to be in a funk when i go. I guess my struggle is that i keep hitting tye same spots repeatedly (targets that i can see) and wondering if theres anything else i could do. Ive tried anchoring out amd dragging a worm around looking for drop offs and ledges but its mostly soft bottom with some nasty mud. Understand no electronics and it being smaller lake is likely holding me back.