Moving from the North to the South has humbled me the past 2 years, my local lake Santee Cooper is my nemesis. I went from 20 fish days up north to 1 or 2 fish days in SC. My friend is taking us to Guntersville, last thing I want to do is drive 6 hours to get skunked. I can fish open water fairly ok, if I see something clearly pronounced on my electronics, I’m not good at chasing bait or catching subtle details On my electronics. Is there any good shallow water patterning during early summer? Sorry for getting long winded.

You can always just fish the docks this time of year.  My PB came off a dock on Guntersville the first week in June.  It topped my previous PB that I caught 5 minutes earlier off the same dock and the same Texas Rigged Lizzard.  It doesn’t get any simpler than that.

Check some YouTube footage from the latest BASS elite event over the weekend. Almost, if not all of the top competitors were fishing in shallow grass. I did see Palaunik deep cranking some but that was it