J/w, what types of lakes do you normally fish? Resiviors, ponds, natural lakes, man-made lakes, eutrophic, or whatever other scientific names they have for them.... Are they tiny (20- acres) small (50-) decently sized (50-100) medium (100-200) Respectable (200-500) or big (500+) in acreage? Mine are all natural, usually with a soft mucky bottom, and lots of weeds, in the small to medium size range, usually around or under 200 acres. at most. Oh, and almost all of them are lined with docks and houses, almost no undeveloped shorelines. Not my ideal lake, but its what ive got.

With the exception of Clearlake, and the California Delta, all the places I fish  (excluding ponds) are rocky, deep, steep walled, man made reservoirs. Most are 100-600 acres but a few are 1,000+

Most are man made with some rock bluffs and range 200-600 acres

Well I live very close to Carters Lake in northwest Ga.  The lake is extremely clear and has 3200 surface acreage.  Its extemely deep, at points even more than 450 feet.  It has little cover except timber and some grass beds, its main bass habitat is rocky points and stacks of boulders that is the home of Spotted bass.  Spotted bass make up about 90 percent of the black bass family.  There is also a substanial number of walleyes in the lake (yum).  Stripers also cruise around and getting a fish 20 lbs. is not uncommon.  I also live near Lake Blue Ridge which is around the same size, 3,290 surface acreage.  This lake is also very clear but not deep at all, I think 200ish may be the bottom.  I love this lake because it has a very good populations of smallies.  Yes, this mean im 10 minutes from great spots and 20 minutes from smallmouths!  I'm a very lucky person indeed.  Anyways Lake Blue Ridge is full of blown down tree's, timber, and grass in the summer.  So ya thats about it for me.

Toledo Bend Reservoir

Length: 65 miles

Width: 5 miles

Surface area: 204,000 acres

Shoreline: 1,200 miles

Maximum depth: 110 feet

lake lanier

Surface area-38,000 acers

130ft deep (deepest ive seen)

real clear, LOTS of standing tember, brush piles, and a lot of humps(was a big valley till flooded back in the 50's) and boat docks

typical florida.   Generally shallow and full of weeds.

Kentucky Lake is a man-made river resevoir.

160,300 acres

channel depth average is 60 ft.

average lake depth is 15ft.

2380 miles of shoreline

I'd fish in a puddle if it looked fishy.

I fish in mostly manmade lakes and ponds from 3 to 71,000 acres. Some are very clear and others are muddy all the time. Most have some type of aquatic weeds but a couple are mostly rocky. I travel all over Georgia and some of South Carolina to fish.

Pretty much what i expected, almost everybody fishes big man made resiviors. I have a great looking resivior about 5-6 minutes from my house, but there is NO public access site, and the entire shoreline is developed, and the banks are way to steep to fish off. The only way to fish this is to launch at a town that is probably close to 10 miles upstream, when the lake is back to a river. So there is a giant resivior, full of fish, that has never seen any fishing pressure, and i cant fish it!!!!!

Sounds like you can fish it but it's not worth the hassle.  I would make it a point to get in there, personally!!

Where there's a will there's a way.  Get in there and fish that thing!

Lake Cumberland(man made)

65,530 Acres

101 miles by 1 mile(widest)

max depth 200 feet

Cave Run Lake

8,270 acres

dunno max depth..Its somewhere in the 150+ range

Laurel River Lake

19 miles long

6,000 acres

280 feet max depth

after that, most of the lakes get smaller, and I fish Ponds as well.

Norfork Lake

550 miles of shoreline

22000 acres surface area

195 feet max depth

Bull Shoals

740 miles shoreline

45440 acres surface area

Table Rock Lake

857 miles of shoreline

52300 acres surface area

Seeing that there is only one natural lake in Texas, I fish man made. But a variety.....

"highland" - (Lake Travis and Georgetown) deep (up to 180ft), crystal clear. No veggies. 1300-18,000 acres.

Power plant - (Bastrop or Fayette) mostly shallow and clear. Lots of veggies. 800-1300 acres. (currently in pre-spawn )

low lands - (Choke Canyon) mostly shallow and murky. Lots of veggies and timber. 26,000 acres

River lakes - (Austin, Town) crystal clear. Lots of veggies. 500-1800 acres.

Much Chunk Lake a mall flood control impoundment 339 acres. Lots of boulders.stumps and some water that goes to 45 feet deep. Ilots of weedy shore line too!

I also fish a lot of ponds from as little as a couple of acres to larger. And strippin Pits, deserted srip mines mostly steep and off the shore