Help i have no structure or weeds

[FunnyFish]

Alright i have been out to our usual fishing spot in wisconsin. The lake is a drainage lake that goes to 65ft. Problem is they just killed out the weeds last year and it is still looking a little bare. Every drop off i find there is no  structure or weeds around. Seems i catch fish on bends that seem to lessen the current for the fish to sit and be lazy but i really want to go deeper to find bigger fish. Any suggestions or questions about what else the lake is like i will answer.

[Crestliner2008]

Alright i have been out to our usual fishing spot in wisconsin. The lake is a drainage lake that goes to 65ft. Problem is they just killed out the weeds last year and it is still looking a little bare. Every drop off i find there is no  structure or weeds around. Seems i catch fish on bends that seem to lessen the current for the fish to sit and be lazy but i really want to go deeper to find bigger fish. Any suggestions or questions about what else the lake is like i will answer.

To quote you, "Every drop off I find, there is no structure or weeds..." A drop off IS structure. Structure is defined as bottom variation such as depth, points, humps or bends. What's on that structure, such as weed clumps, stumps or boulders are "breaks".

You did not say if you were fishing from a boat or from shore? If from a boat, your job would be to find bait (use your sonar) relating to some structural feature first & foremost. When you find bait, note the depth and fish that depth along similar structure lines.

Since the fish have obviously undergone a serious stress with the removal of the weeds, I would treat them as always in neutral or negative moods. Try drop shotting or vertically suspending Senkos, etc....there are sooo many finesse-type presentations you can use. Good Luck!

[WRB]

What we is a failure to communicate. Structure is any element under or above the water that is permanent; dams, rocks, pilings, islands, humps,saddles, channels, points, bridges, cribes, breakwater walls,rip rap,posts, foundations, road beds, culverts, etc. We can argue about trees, docks, stumps as being cover or structure, but for now lets call them cover like; weed beds, floating docks, trees, brush, bouys, etc.

The breaks you are fishing are structure, isolated structure would be a rock pile or just one rock. The prime area of a channel is where the channel starts to bend facing any current and where it stops and straightens out. Check both the inside and outside transition areas of the bends for any active feeding bass. Transitions of soil types like mud to sandy areas or sandy to gravel areas, these are all structure elements that bass will use to feed on prey that live in those areas.

WRB

[Just_Old_Fisherman]

I go with what the others have said.  For any body of water I am fishing, I am always looking for something different.  Whether it is that bigger bush among the other smaller ones, that narrow cut entering the main channel, that brush I sank near the channel.  Unless the lake is a smooth bowl with no channels or brush, it has cover and structure.  Find the structure & cover that is different.

[FunnyFish]

Thanks for the help, I really appreciate it. Sorry my terminology is off. I'm still learning but i have the right idea and now have better ideas thanks to all your help. THANKS for the reply.  

[FD.]

Welcome to the forums.

[fishfordollars]

Welcome.

Pull, out on the deeper bends with a drop shot and let the fish tell you whether to go deeper or shallower