Bream started moving into shallow water to spawn about a week ago on Toledo

If you were referring to the main lake which I thought you were, these bass will move deeper faster than the bass which are shoreline related, the main lake bass will spawn out on the main lake.

What puzzled me was the "postspawn bass is more likely to be in 12' rather than 16'", out on the main lake the post spawn depth will be relevant to the location of the structure.

Bream started moving into shallow water to spawn about a week ago on Toledo

If you were referring to the main lake which I thought you were, these bass will move deeper faster than the bass which are shoreline related, the main lake bass will spawn out on the main lake.

What puzzled me was the "postspawn bass is more likely to be in 12' rather than 16'", out on the main lake the post spawn depth will be relevant to the location of the structure.

To add that lots of the main lake fish will stay out there year round. Never moving to the bank. They will spawn out in the middle on anything that has the right depth, water temps, and sunlight, and then just move right back into the deeper water.

FYI, the bream are moving up on Rayburn too. Gonna be fun.

I have a ridge with 1' of water on the main lake that I have caught a 5lber on. One side drops into 4' then gradually gets shallower for 100 yards up to the bank. The other side drops quickly into 8'and goes back up to 3'. I think that 8' water is a slough off the main river channel that drops into 17' water. I caught the 5lber on the end of the ridge farthest from the river channel but probably should find more fish towards where the channel and slough connect. Correct? Or just keep working up and down the 200 yard ridge throwing deep to shallow then slow way down on a spot when I get bit?

From now until next years pre-spawn I'll seldom fish shallower than 15'