It's been my experience that bass behave the same regardless of where they live, however their location is dependant on the type of lake or river they live in and the prey that is available to them.
If bass live in a featureless natural lake or pond without pelagic baitfish, they become more cover oriented and target sunfish (bream) like pumpkin seeds, bluegill. crappie and crawdads, worms, salamders, frogs or whatever else they eat in and around cover. Bass don't need to migrate other then to spawn in the spring and find survivable water temperatures in the winter.
Man made impoundments are different; usually flooded areas that were at one time a river valley. Most of the reservoirs today have pelagic baitfish like shad, herring and smelt, plus sunfish, crawdads, etc. Bass in reservoirs tend to migrate to where the greatest concentration of prey is located. All the main lake structure elements become locations where bass feed, then in the spring migrate into locations to spawn. Reservoirs have main lake points, humps, underwater islands, creek channels etc.
This weekend for example a major tournament called the US Open was held at Lake Mead, Neveda. Lake Mead is a Canyon classification reservoir where the bass locate around the shoreline deep walls and back in deep river arms. Mead is almost viod of aquatic vegetation, few weeds (some sparsh short grass areas back in little cuts) and very little wood. The prey in mead is threadfin shad, bluegill and crawdads. Mead is a big lake, each river arm is like a different lake and the bass rarely migrate to different areas. The main lake basin is too deep to fish any outside structure and usually too windy to fish. You find the shad on Mead and you will find both stripers and largemouth.
Clear lake in northern CA is a large natural lake, bowl shaped, no major points, few humps, no creek arms. The bass at Clear lake relate to cover, docks and shoreline structure. The primary baitfish at Clear lake are hitch, a fresh water smelt, threadfin shad, bluegill, crappie, crawdads etc. Clear has massive weed beds, so the weedline breaks and pockets become the place where bass locate.
Mead and Clear lake are very different and the bass locate where the prey is. Once you determine what the prey is, then bass are bass and react the same to lures and presetations.
WRB