Fishing the Filamentous, algea/whats your method of fishing this

[repper]

i think he's talking about what we call 'cheese mats', created by weeds that grow to the service and then turn sideways, creating large areas of yellow/green, which look like cheese. there are some huge ones here on clear Lake, and we typically fish them with frogs, or punch thru with 1oz weights and some sort of creature: beavers, or brush hogs, jigs etc.

[Paul Roberts]

Yeah that's Osage Orange, aka Boi d' Arc. We just called 'em cheese trees. When those cheese balls fall into the water they can be tough to fish through... Before tungsten we'd tied a chipmunk to a cinder block, and haul it back in the next day. Never caught nothin though.

[Md]

Sounds like all of your cheese may have fallen off the cracker! ;D

[Glenn]

All your cheese are belong to us!  

Local terms/knowledge to one person is not necessarily common sense/language to another; especially geographically speaking.

Absolutely!  Up until recently, I thought everyone knew what a "Big Kahuna" was!  I'm serious!

[bigbill]

In the thick over grown topwater stuff i bring a larger saltwater rod with a lure with many trebles on it to clear the water so i can fish first.  It pays off because for weeks that area is clear to fish.

Year after year of clearing this spot i call shot gun alley its staying clear now.  Its like having a small channel to fish in now.

[Busy]

Did you just make a reference to an obscure japanese game that was translated horribly?  All your bass are belong to us.

The cheese I am talking about is like a froth on the top of the water, usually not much under it, no grass.  In fact the froth (algaeic) kills whats below it by blocking the sunlight and puts oxygen in the air rather than in the water.  Seen old ponds with this crap all around it.  It smothers everything in the pond.  Bass relate to this stuff when you find it at a spot in the lake?

[Steven Ladner]

Local terms/knowledge to one person is not necessarily common sense/language to another; especially geographically speaking.

Quick; who can tell be what the following are:

A gumband: A rubberband

A jaggerbush: A thornbush

A monkeyball: Tree that produces large orange like fruit

I'll post pics of them later if no one gets them right.

Not sure what the original thread is about, so I'll take a shot at this. Is it right?

8-)

All correct. Good job. The Monkey balls are from the Osage orange trees. Pictured below is one of them. Growing up on the South Side of Pittsburgh, PA we'd roll those down the hills, seeing who could make theirs go the farthest. Bigger than a grapefruit and heavy too.

Are you from Pittsburgh or did you google that stuff?

Had a boring break. I'll admit it, it was googled

[Paul Roberts]

All your cheese are belong to us!

Local terms/knowledge to one person is not necessarily common sense/language to another; especially geographically speaking.

Absolutely! Up until recently, I thought everyone knew what a "Big Kahuna" was! I'm serious!

Isn't that a pineapple, standing tall next to a pair of Kiwi's?

[Paul Roberts]

OK...I get the question now. Phew!

If it's the filamentous algae that I have here that forms puffy light green mats...it grows on the bottom in the early summer then appears to die and lift off bottom in large sheets. My guess is it lifts due to methane production by bacteria. It's possible it produces the gas itself, but my guess is it just dies.

Anyway, it can cover the majority of some ponds I fish. If it's shallow enough I fish a frog or worm and target pockets. Bass seem to be willing to blow up from beneath but often miss. The pockets give the bass a chance.

I've have raked it too, in small areas, as bigbill suggested. It probably stays clear bc new stuff isn't re-growing below.

Windy periods will push most of it to one side of a pond leaving an open side too.

Good luck with it. Let us know how what you figure out.

Hey, welcome aboard BTW.

[ABLE2DISABLE1]

Filamentous is a Multi Celled formed into a Matt of long chains or threads.Resembles wet wool,starts at the bottom, then oxygen increases, floating to the surface.LARGE GREEN MATTED,POND SCUM,as some of you anglers might know it as.I personally call it CHEESE.

[Bassin_Fin@tic]

I think everyone took all the cheese jokes already. :-/

[Desultory]

All your cheese are belong to us!

Gotta admit...this is the last place I thought I'd ever see that meme punned.  Made me choke on my beverage!  

[ab8aac]

In Texas your monkey balls are called hedge apples.

[Busy]

In Texas your monkey balls are called hedge apples.

In KS too.  I was wondering about that.

Never rolled them down hills, but we threw them at eachother running through the woods.  Like paintball but with an arm and hedge apples instead of a gun and paintballs  Those things can hurt!