07-09-2009, 01:36 PM
Heavy grass is a big P.I.A. You can fool around on the edges at times, but for the most part, you need to get in there and fish the thick stuff.
I fished a tournament at Cayuga Lake in NY last month and the guys with the bigger weights were all pulling largies out of the grass beds.
I throw T-Rigged Beavers with a 1/4 oz Tungsten sinker on 40# Power Pro on a 7' Heavy Loomis GLX Mag Bass Rod.... and basically, just make a long cast and pull the lure through the clumps and into the openings. The 1/4 oz weight is nice because the lure will fall nice and naturally. Braided line and a sensitive rod will tell you if you've got a strand of grass stuck to your lure, but it doesn't happen as often as you'd think.
You can almost do the same thing with a weightless Senko. In Pennsylvania, the spinnerbait bite has finally caught on, so I've been burning a 1/2 oz spinnerbait through the weeds as well.
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I fished a tournament at Cayuga Lake in NY last month and the guys with the bigger weights were all pulling largies out of the grass beds.
I throw T-Rigged Beavers with a 1/4 oz Tungsten sinker on 40# Power Pro on a 7' Heavy Loomis GLX Mag Bass Rod.... and basically, just make a long cast and pull the lure through the clumps and into the openings. The 1/4 oz weight is nice because the lure will fall nice and naturally. Braided line and a sensitive rod will tell you if you've got a strand of grass stuck to your lure, but it doesn't happen as often as you'd think.
You can almost do the same thing with a weightless Senko. In Pennsylvania, the spinnerbait bite has finally caught on, so I've been burning a 1/2 oz spinnerbait through the weeds as well.
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