Live vegetation makes excellent bass habitat. It attracts insects, baitfish, frogs, and crawdads, offers cover and shade on clear or hot days, and provides lots of good ambush points. Bass prefer to hold near the edges of lily pads or weedbeds, and any structures that butt up against the vegetation. You may also find fish holding in submerged channels and pockets inside the weedbed or pad field.
Water grass does not provide as much cover as lilies or weeds, but you'lll often find bass feeding there, or nesting in grass pockets during the spawn. Reeds also produce pockets that are excellent spawning habitat. Stout baitcasting gear, sturdy line, and weedless lures are pretty much required even if you avoid snags on the retrieve, a hooked fish will tangle you up in nothing flat.
In many areas, weeds are highly seasonal: sparse in winter, and growing thick by mid-summer. Some anglers scout out shallows while the weeds are thin so they'll know where the best stumps, humps, and hollows are. This gives them the best places to cast once the area is filled in with thick summer vegetation.
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