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Location: Kansas City BBQ Capitol of the world | I have a question on weed beds. Last week when fishing all the weed beds were standing tall and I found weed beds I never knew existed. Today, if you wern't there last week you wouldn't even know there was a weed bed on the lake.
Thinking about this I have had my best fishing days when the weeds have been tall rather than hunkered down as they were today.
I want to say with the weeds being tall there is better visibility for the fish and more precise places to throw your baits and that is why I do better when weeds are tall.
What can you guys tell me about this phenomenon? Is it a pressure or wind thing that makes them tall and down? And what are your experiences with these two conditions?
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| My experience with how the weeds are standing has to do with the size and age of the weeds. They stand until they can't support their weight from size or being blown over by winds. Musky Glenn |
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Location: Cedarburg, Wisconsin | I guess it depends on the body of water to some extent. On the flowage I fish the cabbage was tall and beautiful one week and then gone the next, never to be seen again for the rest of the season. I've got no clue why. It's just the way it was.
I've fished other lakes where when the wind set up a current it bent the taller weeds over to where it was hard to see them. When the wind stopped or changed directions they came back up to the top again for a while.
I find it easier to fish them when they are down. You can throw lures across the "grain" so to speak, and not get fouled up, if you keep them high. Or, you can use deeper runners as long as you are throwing into the current induced by the wind so you have a chance to run in between the stalks on the way back to the boat. When the weeds are up it takes a little more finesse to fish them if you don't want to waste a bunch of casts.
Edited by Almost-B-Good 5/14/2012 6:24 AM
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