Hagg bass from shore is not a problem, if you are willing to hike. Dont just hit the well trampled spots - if there is bare dirt, fishing will likely be so so. Hagg bass - large and smallmouth are spooky, picky fish most of the time. They like slow presentatuons a lot. Mlst of my fish come from crawling plastics - tubes, senkos , robo worms, and curly grubs. Red, pumpkin, watermellon and crawfish are my go to colors. In dirty water i add chartreuse.
Dont discount slowly fished spinners and spinnerbaits either. My biggest hagg largemouth fell to a willowleaf spinnerbait fished in heavy brush, retrieved as slow as possible to just keep the blade turning. Biggest smallie ate a 4 inch red senko drug on the bottom at snail pace.
Fish points, rip rap, weed beds near drop offs. Water is still high, fish are in close because of access to nearby deep water. Spooked some spawners last week. Early am and late evening are best bassin times on hagg. Late eve topwater fishing is killer during summer. Most good bass water can be reached on foot. A lot requires going further than the average guy. Some requires honest bushwacking. Still, it can be done. If you wade, you will do better at some places. Careful of near shore drop offs if you do wade - some places go from 3 to 10 feet in one step... bad times if you arent careful.
