Fishing Standing Timber

[EwadeG15]

The lake I fish has a main lake with not much cover. so the good fishing is back in the coves because each cove has miles of standing timber. I always watch videos of people pulling big fish out of the tree tops but they make it look easy. I texas rig and flip the trees and occasionally pull out a few bass. Is there any specific trees i should target instead of going from tree to tree and not knowing which ones are good to flip at and which ones are bad?

[Nitrofreak]

As far as any specific trees, no, what you do want to look for are limbs that have fallen down around the trees, you might see a pile of limbs that are laying horizontal to the water, but you see a limb that is sticking up at a 45 degree angle, that is the little change in cover that will hold the fish.

[Chris at Tech]

Don't just look at the trees themselves -- choose the trees that are associated with some structure. Target the areas that have something different. By that, I mean trees that are on a point, near a depth change, near a creek channel, etc

[flippin Dan]

I have a buddy that knows our local lake very well. He can go into a cove with 300 trees in it and point out the 3 that we will catch fish off of. Around here they like cedars and I would have to assume the best trees to fish have something different underwater but I am not sure what it is.

[WookieeJedi]

Don't dismiss those areas which appear to have no cover off the main lake. Some of those places have good bottom structure and plentiful food for bass. My home lake has tons of acres of standing timber, but my best spot for bigger fish is right off the main lake. It doesn't look like a good place to fish, but it has a nice incline, and a shell bed. There aren't even any sunken brush piles out there. The bass there feed on bluegill and white and yellow bass.

[Wayne P.]

I fish waters with timber a lot. I don't fish those any different and any body of water that has none. Target the bottom features like points, humps, steep drops, road beds, creek channels, etc.

Trees are not remarkable to a fish that lives in a timber filled lake, they still relate to structure breaks.

[justin apfel]

What type of trees are on the lake? If they are cyprus look for ones with ones that have a wide circumference of roots. These roots provide a lot of cover. If they are other types of timber look for changes in depth and points that the trees are located like Chris said.

[00 mod]

I fish waters with timber a lot. I don't fish those any different and any body of water that has none. Target the bottom features like points, humps, steep drops, road beds, creek channels, etc.

Trees are not remarkable to a fish that lives in a timber filled lake, they still relate to structure breaks.

X2!

About the only thing I will add to what everyone else has said is make sure to fish all the way around ANY ISOLATED trees/timber.

Jeff

[EwadeG15]

i'm not sure what type of trees they are to be honest with you. but thanks for all the advice i appreciate it. I will just have to find a topo map and find where all of the main creek channels are because my electronics aren't the best in the world.

[NCbassmaster4Life]

Trees that are in the main channel, or close to the channel...outstanding fishing all year-long. Trees in shallow water on flats..great spring fishing.Trees thats drop into creeks or channels-great summer.

[Wayne P.]

i'm not sure what type of trees they are to be honest with you. but thanks for all the advice i appreciate it. I will just have to find a topo map and find where all of the main creek channels are because my electronics aren't the best in the world.

Even the most basic sonar unit will show creek channels. They are deeper than the rest of the bottom and are the deepest part of the bottom in a particular area. If you cross one perpendicular it will show as a V or U shape on a LCR like this: