Dorsey520C

Hello everyone! Just joined up. I have followed Bass resource on Facebook for some time always have great tips and info. I have been fishing all my life but have only been tournament fishing for 5 years now. I enjoy discussing tips and techniques with others in the fishing community. I mainly fish Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia. Favorite bait is a jig. Flipping, casting, or football I like em all. I love catching small mouth especially up north during the summer months and during the winter months in KY, TN, and VA. My immediate goal is to be a diversified angler. My fishing code 1. Honor God 2. Fish hard 3. Respect others

A ledge is typically located offshore and is easily found by structure lines that are very close together indicating a dramatic change in depth. Typically a river channel forms a ledge, but you will also find creek ledges as well. Typically a creek ledge is not as defined since creeks do not have the dramatic depth change that a river channel will have. Although you will find well defined creek channels with ledges on Kentucky Lake and Guntersville, it is not the norm on most lakes. As others have commented there is no visible ledge on this lake. Take a look at Kentucky Lake on navionics and you will easily spot humps, ledges, and creek channels. As someone who has never been to this lake and strictly reading a map to fish structure; I would concentrate on points since they are the most obvious mapped structure. During low light conditions bass will use a point as a natural highway. Points give bass the ability to move a short distance to shallow water to ambush shad or other bait fish. Then in the same manner move back to the 15-20 foot mark as the sun becomes high in the sky. Now this is strictly speaking from what I can see on navionics and staying on point with your comments about structure. Next I would spend some time behind a graph looking for irregularities in structure and brush piles. If I were to fish this lake with no previous knowledge, I would start with the most obvious structure or cover. Grass, laydowns, rip rap, or standing timber covering the highest percentage targets first. If this lake has no visible structure I would then move to points. Stay back off the point in 20 + ft of water moving shallower as I fan cast. I would fish perpendicular and parallel to the point. Covering all depth zones with a crank bait, swim bait, top water, and then dragging something. Let the fish tell you where they are and what they want.