Now to start, I know "deep" is a relative term, so let me explain and I have lots of questions.
The lake I fish, bass tend to be caught in docks-13', that includes me and all the other tourney fisherman (cuz I may peak at where they are fishing ). Now that lake the submerged vegetation, which is the 95% of the available cover not including docks, only is established up to 13'ish, no coincidence. So my question is, since there is hardly any true cover/structure out past 13' does the bass utilize the rest of the open lake stating at 13.1'ish and deeper? I have caught some bass including smallies randomly out a little deeper open water, but since the vegetation gets so much pressure (not that big of lake), would it make sense to start to fish the deeper open water (13"-17') and if so when late morning? Alot of times i fish the breaklines, but not much more then 8 feet laterally past the breaklines. I know that bass are opportunist predators and ambush the prey in an around cover, but I didnt know if the times they are not actively hunting, they may go in the deeper open water where there is less pressure.
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