I’m going to visit a small state park later on this week or next week and was wanting to bounce around some thoughts. It has a manmade lake that is only 250 acres, a mile and a half long and half a mile wide. Deepest point is 48 feet. 

 

I can park park near the entrance letter E or the north trail head. There are 3 fishing piers and I can beat the bank wherever.

 

I’m thinking about starting out at those fingers at the north side and working my way down to the fork at #4 and fish up the other side towards 3. 

 

Looking at going south, going down to the dam and to the outlet at #1 and go up towards #2.

The highest traffic areas would be near the camp grounds NE side of the lake between the N and S trail heads. The S end of this lake should be the deeper water areas. The W side the least traffic area. The point areas 1, 2 and 4 look good based on the attached map however without elevation and aquatic plant data is just guess work.

Tom

Looks like the park rents boats.  If you don't have a boat/tube/kayak, I'd suggest renting. 

 

Without topo map, I have a hard time advising you this time of year.  If you're limited to the banks, you'll want to find places where you can reach deeper water -- while there may be an early and late bite in shallows or on surface, most of the day, the bass are likely going to be more than ten feet deep....maybe much more.  I'd want to know more about depth you can cast to than about above the surface features...at least in July and August.  I spent last Friday and Saturday on a similarly sized/shaped lake and every bass, except two, were caught was from just five spots, none very big....ALL between 12 and 17 feet deep.