I am with you, I asked around at work. I got some promising reports in the cricket creek area. You might give that area a go.
As far as weedless, if you find the deep enough to get over the top of them without spooking them, a simple dropshot with a minnow or minnow like lure will somehow find it's way in and out of the brush very well, even with 2 hooks, but you have to stay vertical.
My take for Saturday was 3 short males, so I am green too.