Hey everybody, first post here so go easy on me!

Was in Destin with my family a couple weeks ago and went fishing off the jetty there with my dad and brother and caught a good amount of fish, which has triggered an itch to fish which has not gone away. And I'm very OK with that.

Have caught many a bass/sunfish in my lifetime but that has been mainly at my grandparent's house in Florida and they live on a large pond stocked full of fish, so I've never really tested myself. Also been out to Lake Fork a couple times on guided trips, so again, not much on my own.

Stumbled upon this forum when googling places to fish in the area. Thank you to whoever created that Google bank fishing map! Went over to Richland College last night and caught a small largemouth, probably wasn't more than a pound. But it's just made the itch to fish that more incurable! Only fished the north part of the pond mainly, so much growth under the water the farther south I went.

Now I'm not looking for your secret giveaways or anything like that...But if I'm looking to catch bass and bluegill/sunfish (who are such great fighting fish) without pulling up lump of grass after lump of grass, should I look the way of Texas-rigged worms? I was using a crainkbait last night and think a trip to Academy or Bass Pro is in order shortly. I've used mainly crankbaits my whole life and so I'm quite biased, but either I need to find ponds with less growth or wait until temperatures start to drop and the growth starts to die off.

Thanks for any help or input.

In ponds smaller is usually better. In the grass you definitely need weedless lures. My favorite in grass is weightless baby brush hog in the deeper grass and the edges. Weightless senkos are good too. Also if you don't want to take your time swim some spinnerbaits right on top of the grass. If you're going to be fishing ponds and creeks a lot for bass, or are going to work into crappie sand bass and hybrids you HAVE to get rooster tails (inline spinners). Have caught infinitely more fish (including bass) on them than anything else.

What part of Dallas are you in? I just moved from Addison to Irving so if you want to drive up this way let me know, send me a msg.

Eric

Weightless plastics the way to go when you have thick grass. I have had amazing luck with weightless senkos.

Oh, and welcome to the forum!!

Thanks folks, will take a look at weightless Senkos for sure and the rooster tails.

Eric-I live in North Dallas, pretty much right next to Addison. Work in Irving as well. Will shoot you a message.

to the Texas Fishing Forum. Glad to have you on board!




Side Note: Keep fishing and good things will happen!

Bromance

Fly rod and poppers will destroy the bass and bluegill in the small ponds filled with grass. And it's twice as fun as using conventional gear.

If I do use conventional its usually texas rigged weedless watermelon redflake utail zoom worms for bass.

Welcome to the forums and weedless rigged plastics are the way to go if you ask me.

To the Texas fishing Forum!




Side Note: Bank fishing is hard to beat!