Up in the shallows, lob the spinnerbait right up onto the shoreline or onto rocks emerging from the water. Let it bang up a fuss and let the blade jangle around - the noisier the better. Then hop it into the water and let it flutter to the bottom. Fish will take it as it lies there. Shake and bake it before slow-rolling it away from the shore.
Nobody seems to mind landing a nice bass and finding that it chewed off the tail.
Slide it all the way onto the line above the hook. Embed a half-piece of nail weight exactly on the centerline. Insert the nail where the line goes into the tip of the bullet head if there are clear sports where you can let the spook-grub spiral down to open bottom patches in the weeds. If the only depressions are weed bowls rimmed by weeds, then insert the nail where the line comes out of the bullet head, which allows it to fall horizontally and be more weedless in the process. Keep the curly tail intact and pointing up to create a wide, paddling action and to tear less in the cover.