Making A Good Point

Points are one of the most common and productive places in a current system to find bass. Quite simply, Making A Good Point, big or small, offers three major ingredients to current bass; a depth change, a significant current break, and a migration route from the bass’ deeper sanctuary to it’s shallow feeding area. drops however, are not all created equal. Being able to anticipate which points the fish are using and when they are using them is essential to consistently pinpointing bass.

We’ll begin with main lake area. Ideally, there will be a channel running up to or alongside of the shallower edge. This gives largemouth and smallmouth bass an escape route to deep water and provides them with perfect feeding territory. For example, I mark the tip as well as each of its (edges) sides, that is, where they begin their slope away from the top of the bar. I’ll begin at the shore and travel out toward the end of the slop to mark its tip than crisscross to mark its sides.

These sloped areas will hold catchable bass throughout much of the year

Points will hold catchable bass throughout much of the year. Day in and day out, if all else fails, you can usually hop from rubble slopes to slopes and catch fish. Slopes with deeper edges are concentrated feeding areas for bass, they hold here to get out of the current and eat. If you find baitfish hanging around points, it’s bonus time! I’ll guarantee you there will be some bass close by. These sloped edges can be as small as a group of rocks jutting out from a rip rap shoreline, a protrusion from a weed-bed, or a bigger area of gravel or sand at the entrance to a creek or a cove. These ares are natural stopover areas for bass cruising through an area. This becomes especially true during seasonal migrations.

Baitfish are attracted to these same points for the same reasons as bass.

But most importantly, always remember bass relating to points don’t have to move far. This is true for changing weather and the movement of forage. When the weather changes bass can react and find a
comfort zone without having to travel a long distance. They have the option of moving up or down, or suspending off the end of the point, rather than having to move a great distance to reach deeper water
when a cold front moves through. This is why I rely on points in my everyday search.

Excerpts taken from Lee’s new book “Strategies for Bass“.