There used to be a lot of pockets all over .. now it’s u have to get to the over hangs or get lucky in the channel that runs in the middle. Lily pads are usually everywhere in this little local lake but they were fried out mid summer from the excessive algae cover . This lake was awesome to me last year .. this year Mother Nature had it’s way with it.

 

A lot of vegetation has been missing from out lakes the last couple years. It's made some normally really good lakes fish terrible. No idea what's caused it.

40 minutes ago, Bluebasser86 said:

A lot of vegetation has been missing from out lakes the last couple years. It's made some normally really good lakes fish terrible. No idea what's caused it.

This is kinda the deal with my home pond. It never had tons of vegetation but had several decent weedbeds and lots of brush...floods ripped the grass and wood out several years ago and really made the fishing challenging.