Bass love grass and bass anglers know the power of fishing around vegetation

When you have two types of vegetation coming together, they often create a defined edge and that is a great place to find fish

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Summer 2018

VEGETAT

by Tyler Brinks

page 38

B

ass love grass

and bass anglers

know the power of fishing around vegetation.

Largemouth especially, love to

live their lives around the green

stuff. Typically, any time you

find grass you will find bass;

but what if you are faced with

vast expanses of good looking

vegetation?

Bassmaster Elite Series

pro Keith Combs shares how

he tackles multiple types of

grass and a general approach

for fishing when there is no

shortage of vegetation.

FIND THE DIFFERENCES

You hear it all the time in bass fishing: find something different or find where there is a transition between two types of structure. The same rule applies to fishing vegetation according to Combs.

“The first thing I look for is to find the grass edges,” he said. “That is always a good place to start. When you have two types of vegetation coming together, they often create a defined edge and that is a great place to find fish.”

One of the easiest ways for finding transitions is usually done just by scanning and looking for slight changes in color. This simple approach helps Combs narrow down where to start fishing and makes him more efficient as he searches for bass.

in the thick stuff; but, it just takes longer to find them, and your percentages go way down.”

The submerged patchy grass is one of the best scenarios and according to Combs, it will hold fish all year long and is relatively easy to fish with different lures.

BARE SPOTS AND SAND

Similar to finding patchy grass, Combs also looks for sand spots and bare spots in the grass. This allows him to have a place to target and shortens his search.

“Any openings in the grass are potential spots for bass to be holding. I always make sure to cast to each opening,” he shares. “Even a very small open spot or a little patch of sand can be all you need to find a bass.”

PATCHY GRASS

If Combs can find patchy grass, he will always make a point to fish it. “What that does is it creates more ambush points for bass and is easier for you to target specific spots,” he said. “When there is a huge flat of grass, it is much harder to pinpoint where the fish are. They are still

BAIT SELECTION

As a rule, Combs keeps his bait selection simple when fishing any type of vegetation and changes up based on how thick the grass is.

“It is dependent on what kind of grass you are fishing and how mature it is,” he added. “Further along in the