Names For Your Favorite Fishing Spots

[papajoe222]

I was wondering if any of you have given names to any of your favorite fishing spots.  I'm not talking about the bodies of water, but honey holes or just spots that have some sentimental value to you.  The first one I recall giving a name to was an area on the lake my folks had a cabin on when I was growing up. After my dad passed and mom sold the place, I would still visit the lake a few times a year. My dad made sure to visit that area at least once every outing and it rarely disappointed. I came to call it dad's spot. I haven't been on that lake in twenty years, but I'm sure I could still find it and it will always be dad's spot to me.  Pete's Place, Dave's point and Chuck's Pagoda all have stories behind them too.

What's yours?

[RSM789]

1) Lesbian Cove - A large sunken Christmas tree is at the entrance to a cove where the first home is inhabited by two beefy gals with extremely short hair.

2) Stupid Point - A year round hotspot, the house closest to this point was once rented by a man who spent a couple hours one evening yelling at his girlfriend for us all to hear "Don't call me stupid!! I'm not stupid!!". He was drunk.

3) The DT-10 brushpile - It has about a half dozen of my D-10's buried in its middle.

[Bluebasser86]

The cuts on the north side. One of my favorite spots on my favorite smallie lake, Cbass knows what I'm talking about

 

The docks on the southeast end. One of my favorite largemouth lakes that is small but loaded with docks. The southeast end has dozens of docks, only a select few people know the 3 docks I'm talking about when I say that though. I had almost 12 pounds in 3 fish the first time I took Cbass12 to "the docks on the southeast end". 

 

The pond in Baldwin. Lots of ponds in Baldwin, only one I've found that's worth fishing. 

[WRB]

Naming spots that you catch bass on is as old as bass fishing and we all do this.

Every lake I fish has several named spots, my favorite is "the old folks home".

Tom

[starcraft1]

1. lost cove - San Jauquin delta

2. Lighting bolt - Lake oroville

3. Beaver beach - not tellin' - kinda XXX rated. It realy doesn't matter if the bass are biting, it's just worth the cruise by! :bushy-browed:

[Choporoz]

3. Beaver beach - not tellin' - kinda XXX rated. It realy doesn't matter if the bass are biting, it's just worth the cruise by! :bushy-browed:

 

lol.....I've got a Beaver Bay, but probably a different story.   Was getting dark one evening and my wife and I were working the last bay before getting back to the dock.  A very loud splash that must have belonged to an eight pounder behind us caused us to continue to work the opposite side until well past the time it would have been smart to get in.  It wasn't until about a week later that we saw and heard that it had been a beaver we'd been chasing all evening.

[fishballer06]

Mosquito Bay - a large bay in a lake we fish in Canada that is full of stumps, and is also full of mosquitos and largemouth that are always biting 24/7/365

 

Perch Haven - a large inlet in that same Canadian lake that is shallow and full of timber and weeds, and is chock full of some of the biggest perch you'll ever see in your life

 

Stanleys Cut - an inlet where the river flows into a large lake. My family was good friends with this old man named Stanley who lived on the lake, right beside this inlet. Stanley lived to be 95 years old, and he would fish and cut firewood every single day up until the day he died. You can troll that little cut and pull out more walleyes than the livewell will hold. 

 

The Honey Hole - a little hole we discovered on some private property this fall up in New York for salmon

 

The Bridge and Dales Willow Tree - there was a stream not far from my parents house. This stream was fed by a freshwater spring that pumped out water year round, even in the dead of winter, and it was full of native and stocked trout, as well as some big suckers. My friend and I would fish it almost every day in the spring all throughout middle and high school. There was a open grate singing bridge on my friends Grandparents farm that was always full of beautiful trout. Further down the stream, there was a large willow tree on the waters edge at a man named Dale's property. This tree was over a large hole that was always full of trout. We still joke to this day about that spot, because one night while fishing, I caught a nice Rainbow on a rooster tail. I removed the hooks from the fish and walked to the water to release the fish. When I had turned around, my friends dog (with very long,shaggy hair) had laid down on my rooster tail and gotten the lure completely tangled up and buried in his fur. We didn't have any scissors on us that night, so we had to walk up to Dale's house and ask to borrow his scissors so we could cut the lure out of the dogs fur. That story is still an ongoing joke between my friend and I about the night I "caught Coco". 

[Fishes in trees]

Back when I was a meat fisherman, I gained access to a very private estate in the mid-MO area.  There was a boat house with an assortment of boats & canoes to choose from, there was an electric trolling motor, all we had to do was to bring our own battery and it was a smallish 50 acre or so lake with very restricted access.

You got to the end of the blacktop and then to the end of the gravel and there was still 2 1/2 miles of private creek rock road before you got to the estate.  Anyway, the woman who lived there acquired the property in a divorce settlement and went hermit and didn't allow any fishing or hunting access for 7 or 8 years - at all.  The lake got stunted, with too many small fish and about that time I got access to the property through a friend of a friend.

 

The only cash was that we had to keep all fish 12" and under and release all over 12".   The place acquired the title of  "Bass Valhalla" because the first few times we went there we caught so many fish we figured we'd died and gone to heaven.  The first few years me and a few select buddies fished there, hundred fish days were common, and I became an expert in filleting 10" and 11" bass.  Small bass from a clear water lake are tasty.  I fished it off and on for 7 years and my buds for a few years after that.  The constant removal of the smaller fish had its desired effect and the last few times I visited the place, hundred fish days didn't happen anymore, but 20 to 30 fish days did and about a third of those fish would be over 15".  A 27" fish was caught from the water around 94 or 95,  a few pictures were taken, it wasn't weighed and it was released alive.

 

The last time I checked into returning to the property, the woman who owned it had passed and the property was in the hands of a grandson, who wasn't interested in letting old hippies renewed access to his grand mother's property.  End of an era.

 

 

[J Francho]

Some local names, some with an explanation:

 

Handicap Hole, handicapped parking and fishing ramp

Potato Hole, "Meat & Potatoes"

Snagger on the Bridge, self explanatory, lol

Little Drink of Water, water supply res

Big Drink of Water, water supply res

Meal Creek, actually called "Mill Creek" but there's a lot harvest there

Nooner Pond

Lunchbreak Pond

City Dump, Irondequoit Bay, self explanatory

[OntarioFishingGuy]

1. Dang it, just a rock bass point. For every smallmouth you catch, you get about 50 Rockies.

2. Supposed walleye weedbed. Everyone says it's full of walleye, but i have yet to catch a fish there.

3. Oh look there's a treble hook in that salmon's back pool. I saw a King Salmon swimming out of this pool with about 10 hooks in its back.

4. There goes my phone pool. My dad cast his spinner across a pool, and got snagged on the opposite bank, so he decided to cross the river, and fell in up to his waist.

[Siebert Outdoors]

The only name I've given to a place.  I passed it on from another guy for rightful reasons.  The hog trough.

[deep]

I have a "no-good point" in a local res- because I never ever caught- or even seen- a decent fish there. Another one is called the 6 pounder point, because I caught my first big fish (no points for guessing what it weighed) off that spot. Caught a few more big fish, including an 8.5, off that point, but the name hasn't changed.

[MidwestFishing]

A-frame cove - an A-frame house sits on the point.

Spoonbill cove - I snagged a huge spoonbill in the tail with a wiggle wart. Took 15 minutes and chasing it with trolling motor to get my bait back.

Carp cove - caught two 10+ pound carp on the same crankbait later that day.

All of these are on Lake of the Ozarks.

[buzzed bait]

Toker's cove

The campsite

Gas pipe

Rock island

Just a few I can remember right now. Lots of names given to spots with my buddies.

[A-Jay]

Many of my spot names are so designated by what the bait used to initially take fish there was ~

 

The Drop-shot humps

Sub-walk Island

Frog Land

Swim jig alley

 

Also places that we no longer visit as they have been found to have no or small fish.

 

The Dead Sea

Dinkville

Barely Keeper city

The Void

 

A-Jay

 

 

 

[Bankbeater]

Pee island down at Table rock. Island got the name because we had to beach the boat there to take a leak in the bushes.

[everythingthatswims]

"THE HUT"-Small Private Lake

"The Point Where The Giant Lives"(followed by "I get first cast!")-Reservoir that shall not be named

"Striper Cove"-Lake Anna

"White Perch Dock"-Lake Anna

"Slab Dock"-Lake Anna

"Stair Steps"-Trout Stream

"Alaska"-North Fork Rivanna River  

[Scott F]

My fishing partner and I found a nearly new X-Rap hanging from a tree branch. It was the Hot Steel color. He caught a bunch of smallies on it right off a small un-named island that we now call Hot Steel Island.

[AK-Jax86]

My buddy and I found this spot over the weekend and we call it Fat Camp.

On Saturday I caught a 7lb 12oz out of there on a red eye shad and hooked into but lost 2 more of similar size. Then the next day my buddy caught one bigger than mine (I was on my way to The Fat Camp and I have the scale so this fish is unconfirmed weight wise)

[Catt]

Housen' Bayou

 

6-Mile Bayou

 

San Miguel

 

La Nana

 

Palo Goucho

 

A few areas I visit on the Big Pond!

 

Then there's more detailed areas

 

Machine Gun Ridge; the bass hit your plastic bait 4-5 times real fast

 

1215; legendary

 

Texas 43; more double digits caught here than any where on the pond

 

Chicken Coups; best crappie hole in America!

[rhino]

Dead Boy Cove  : Self explanatory

 

The Cave Hole  : A cave that filled in when the lake was built. It's 8-10ft all around it but the cave drops down to 80ft. Striper love it in the summer.