Textbook Points ?

[scaleface]

How would you go about fishing a textbook point on a heavily fished reservoir? I mean a popular point that everybody with basic skills can easily locate and fish. It extends far in the lake , creek channel swing on it. You watch it day after day  and boat after boat pounds it.  Bill Dance fished it in the 60's and told the world how to fish it. Tom Mann bounced Little Georges on every inch of it.   Would you even bother fishing it now ?

[papajoe222]

I'll answer your last question first. YES!  The fish have no idea who previously fished it and you have little knowledge of the skills of the anglers that pound it.  It is a major piece of structure and will hold fish, or at the very least be used by them in their movements.  Fish it as you would any other point. The fish are pressured, so I would approach it the same way I would under cold front conditions.

[scaleface]

I was using Bill Dance and Tom Mann hypothetically . I just wanted to stress that it is  an easily found , textbook piece of structure that has immense fishing pressure .

[A-Jay]

Nope -

 

Why get in line to make a futile attempt to convince the bass that your offering is somehow different & better on a spot that gets Hammered ?

 

Instead, I'd spend whatever time it took to hunt down & locate something else.

 

It's there, somewhere on the lake.  A spot that is probably smaller, much less obvious and wasn't on TV. The bass know where it is and I'd make it my mission to find it; and there's probably more than one.

 

I'd be glad to have those not willing to look for the real gems to stay over on the community holes.  It leaves all the hidden treasure to me.

 

Oh, and once I find them, I might only fish them at night.

 

A-Jay

[Todd2]

I'll answer with an example. Last summer, my girlfriend and I were out fishing. She was throwing a lite Carolina rig, I was throwing a jig. I don't tournament fish but was on a point that is very popular with those guys. We had caught several nice fish and decided it was time to stop and eat some lunch. Some tourney guys pulled up while we were eating sandwiches and asked if they could fish. I said go ahead as we kind of drifted off the point. They caught two nice keepers and left to go weigh in. We finished eating, trolled back over to the point and started catching them again. Some point are really that good. This one..drops right into the main river channel. The key is finding the depth they are at on the point...

[ClackerBuzz]

I'd fish 5-10 outings on that point...during the best conditions.  pre-frontal, dusk, dawn, spring, fall, night fishing. if it didn't give anything up i'm like A-Jay and would spend 80-90% of my time off the beat and path. a lot of guys laugh and say 65lb braid is for 'shark' fishing.  nothing is more fun than punching nasty slop where the majority of anglers can't go with their 10lb mono, and the big fish live.  it's exciting and rewarding.  but i will spend 20% of my time covering classic structure/known locations during peak conditions.  these percentages change depending on the fishery i'm at.

[RoLo]

Whether I fish or bypass a major point depends on what I see at the moment.

If the spot is loaded with boats, it will be treated like the bubonic plague (I'm outta here).

Even in the enormous expanses of the Atlantic Ocean, anglers tend to pile onto hotspots,

places you won't find my boat.

 

On the other hand, if a textbook point is barren of boats (e.g. at night), I'm definitely going to fish there.

Since it's been heavily pressured, I might have to resort to co-angler tactics...LOL

 

Roger

[basshole8190]

If it's pressured try fishing it uphill. Fish from deep back to the shallows. You'll get funny looks from people being so shallow but it is very rewarding most of the time

[Ozark_Basser]

I would throw something not too many people have probably thrown at it. A glide bait or any other big swimbait. Or a reaper on a dropshot or maybe some new plastic that just came out.

[Bankbeater]

I have this problem on a couple of lakes that I fish.  Most people that fish on the lake I fish use crankbaits, or plastic worms.  I usually hit the points with a jig with craw trailer.

[Mr Q]

As a last resort, try fishing the spot at night! There are lots of people out there who don't even know you can catch bass at night on almost any night.

[danno054]

If it's pressured try fishing it uphill. Fish from deep back to the shallows. You'll get funny looks from people being so shallow but it is very rewarding most of the time

Absolutelty! Positioning the boat in shallow water makes the big girls commit because they run out of water.

It's a different look. And it's effective. People do give you a funny look. But if it didn't work no one would ever catch fish off the bank.

[Catt]

Well first off I don't care who is fishing that point cus the majority are nothing more than boat traffic!

I would inspect every inch with my electronics & locate sweet spots.

Then I'd bust that puppy during midweek or at night!