It doesn't matter where a lake is located; Florida, Texas, California or Nebraska, they all stratify into layers of water temperature....unless there is current to mix the water column. If your lake is wind swept or subjected to high winds strong enough to create current and mix the water weekly, it will develop a thermocline.

Meter the lake and determine if there is a life zone depth, bluegill or bass not suspending deeper than a certain depth.

Tom

Theres different temps in the water column but there is no dead zone..i see fish from top to bottom all year in this and every other lake around here i promise you.

Thermocline doesn't mean zero DO levels below it.

Whatever, fish top to bottom and enjoy your time on the water, it doesn't matter.

Your lake doesn't have a palegic prey population, it has a dermesal prey. Targeting the shoreline and bottom structure is what you need to do.

Tom

Thermocline doesn't mean zero DO levels below it.

Whatever, fish top to bottom and enjoy your time on the water, it doesn't matter.

Your lake doesn't have a palegic prey population, it has a dermesal prey. Targeting the shoreline and bottom structure is what you need to do.

Tom

Im not trying to argue with you im just saying what our biologist has said many times on a local forum about thermoclines in our waters.. whats dermesal prey??? Does palegic mean schooling or roaming???

I want to go there with nothing but my crankbit boxes. I'd either idle around staring at the FF, or just park it along the old road and try to tear the lips off the CBs on the bottom...

I like to fish the road with cranks or lipess cranks...

Does the north end of the lake have Lilly pads and grass or hydrilla?

Lilly pads,weeds and grass. Theres also two siltation dams about 75 yds south of the bridge on the far north end, one on the west bank going east and one o, the east bank going west and they both meet in the middle but theyre not aligned so water and a boat can get through. Theyre basicly very narrow rock levees with the tops just below the surface at normal pool, shallow as heck up there but tons of cover..

Pelagic means roaming or open water. Shad are pelagic fish. If there is a lot of cover in the lake, I'd just look for the thickest cover possible during the day and pitch/cast a jig and work it real slow.

Where you live is probably past the post spawn by now and fish are moving into their summer patterns. If you time the post spawn right you could tear them up in those pads with a frog. It's probably been beaten to death though by now. Maybe grasslines or pad field edges next to deeper water would work.

If there is timber or docks on the cutbank accross from the ramp I would start on that. Fish love sitting right under the docks and timber in deep water this time of year around here. If the water is not real clear I would look for the same type of stuff  up North on the East bank where it flattens out or head back into the creek where it flattens out. 

SW side of lake concentrating on the ledges around the big point , the brush around the fish dock and the sharp bend in the adjacent creek channel .Including all of the under water rock structure along the way.

Pelagic means roaming or open water. Shad are pelagic fish. If there is a lot of cover in the lake, I'd just look for the thickest cover possible during the day and pitch/cast a jig and work it real slow.

Where you live is probably past the post spawn by now and fish are moving into their summer patterns. If you time the post spawn right you could tear them up in those pads with a frog. It's probably been beaten to death though by now. Maybe grasslines or pad field edges next to deeper water would work.[/quote

Actually ive only seen one boat up there past the silt dams besides me since 08 or 09. Theres fish back there but only,time i fish it is when everything south of there is not doing anything..

If there is timber or docks on the cutbank accross from the ramp I would start on that. Fish love sitting right under the docks and timber in deep water this time of year around here. If the water is not real clear I would look for the same type of stuff  up North on the East bank where it flattens out or head back into the creek where it flattens out.

Just rocks across from the ramp and they only extend out about 10 ft and there its about 3-4 feet deep where the rock transition is..

SW side of lake concentrating on the ledges around the big point , the brush around the fish dock and the sharp bend in the adjacent creek channel .Including all of the under water rock structure along the way.

You would do well my freind..

Pelagic means roaming or open water. Shad are pelagic fish. If there is a lot of cover in the lake, I'd just look for the thickest cover possible during the day and pitch/cast a jig and work it real slow.

Where you live is probably past the post spawn by now and fish are moving into their summer patterns. If you time the post spawn right you could tear them up in those pads with a frog. It's probably been beaten to death though by now. Maybe grasslines or pad field edges next to deeper water would work.[/quote

Actually ive only seen one boat up there past the silt dams besides me since 08 or 09. Theres fish back there but only,time i fish it is when everything south of there is not doing anything..

Yes they r past post spawn and doing theyre summer thing now.