Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Fishing Grass for Largemouth Bass: Shake It or Swim It

Fishing grassy flats is a cinch when you have the right bass fishing tackle and bass lures.   This particular grassy flat produced five bass in two-and-a-half hours of intense, focused bass fishing.  There's an unnoticeable four foot drop directly in front of the left grassy curve, so while at the beginning of the day, largemouth bass were located in front and back of the entire row of grass, by mid-day the bass transitioned to this four-foot drop.  

Once I realized that the bass had moved, I opted to use light weight grass slipper shaky head jigs with a Watermelon Seed Fish Candy Bait Company Flapper Hawg.  I would slowly pull this rig over the tops of the grass and let the Flapper Hawg fall into the four-foot drop directly in front of the grass.  Simply shaking and pulling the bait produced some vicious strikes.  You can purchase the Flapper Hawg and these grass slipper shaky head jigs for bass on Lunkercatch.com.

Small stretch of grassy flats with a minor drop in depth (timber  in the background)

Various grass slipper shaky head jig sizes

Flapper Hawg on Lunkercatch.com

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