Is the grass there this month? How do you fish the grass at hc?

Found this video on hydrilla fishing. Seems pretty good

https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=626&v=stbA1Xb8UR0&feature=emb_title

Spook around the edges at first light. Heavy Drop Shot on the runs of deep grass that is 12 to 20 ft. tall. That usually shows up and continues to grow in July, Aug., and Sept..



It is a challenge because you have to rely on your electronics a lot more to find the points and pockets that have the deep grass beds. When you find that one special spot, just a small grass bed in deep water can hold some big fish. Stay glued to the contour map so you can turn into these small depressions that only have one or two feet of irregular depression which produces that notch in the grass line. It is not always clearly defined on your depth finder. Straight lines where the grass stops are the easiest to find and follow. This is not always the best spot, what you're looking for is that irregular edge, where the grass is thinner and not a solid wall. The Bass seem to stage there better where it is scattered and broken. You will find those smaller clumps producing as they come out to feed in the open areas between the thickest grass.

Rig a heavy drop shot rig:
5.0 heavy super line hook. Tied on 50# braid. Use a Palomar knot. Leave the tag end at 5 inches long. Tie a 1 oz. weight to the tag end. I just tie a knot in the end of the tag, then use an overhand slip knot to attach the weight. It doesn't take much to keep it on. When I am fishing grass with hardwoods and it gets hung on the wood I can pull the weight off and come out with the hook and fish. The hook is about 4 to 5 inches above the weight, so the tails of the bait will hang down and cover the weight.
Use a Gene Lawrue Hoo Daddy Jr. in Watermelon Neon. This is not Watermelon/Red although they look almost the same; but it makes a great difference.

It will drop in the grass and come out of the grass with no hang-ups. Fish vertical to slightly in front of the boat. Directly over the bait is best on the deepest grass. Drop it in slowly and soft so it is traveling slowly when it touches the bottom. The Bass hate anything sneaking in on them. Hold it there with a tight line for about 5 seconds without any movement. They don't want it bouncing up and down. This gives them time to swim through the hollow under the grass and nail the bait. Fish a vertical presentation and moving along the outer edge of the grass line, making pitches out in front of the boat so by the time it gets to the bottom you are directly over the bait for the hook set.
HAVE FUN!!

I’ll definitely Try this! I’ll be there may 22

Tomorrow is the day.

With the high at 76 tomorrow I wonder if they’ll be deep in the grass.

When I was there in March there were only a couple of areas that had hydrilla.
Rumor, was they sprayed a bunch of it. What ever the reason--- there was a LOT less than the last few years at that same time of the year.

Dang that’s kind of disappointing.

Sure was.. I LOVE to fish hydrilla.

I haven’t done much of It but that’s what I had planned for 3 weeks now lol. Got every bait I can think of set up to fish hydrilla lol. By god I was gonna learn.

Good luck-- hopefully there's more now than there was in March.

They sprayed, the freeze knocked it back bad too.

Why would they spray? That’s so stupid. It’s not even a swimming lake at all.

i know a few homeowners were complaining about it and tpwd said they would do a small treatment around some docks. it was getting pretty bad in some areas

They did a a ton more than around the docks.