Largemouth Bass
The stump beds are where the biggest largemouth live. Flooded farmland left standing timber across the basin, and the old stumps hold the lake's heaviest bass — but the cover doesn't stop there. Cabbage, reeds, and lily pads sprawl over the shallow flats, and dense back bays give summer fish somewhere to bury. On a lake built for largemouth, the trick is picking which mess to fish.
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This is prime largemouth habitat — shallow, warm, weedy, wall-to-wall wood — and the fish use all of it. The stump beds fish best slow, a plastic worm or a jig picked through the timber for the bigger fish.
As summer heats the shallows, largemouth wedge into the thickest cabbage, reed, and lily cover; a spinnerbait pulled past the weed edges on a gray, windy afternoon draws them out, and topwater after dark around a full moon works the same water. The season opens the fourth Saturday of June and runs to November 30, with the shallow flooded flats staying productive through the warm months.
Watch the submerged stumps and standing timber as a navigation hazard, especially when the OPG reservoir shifts level.
Structure
The submerged stumps hold the largest bass in the lake; fished slow with a worm or jig. Core big-fish structure across the flooded basin.
Primary bass cover spread across the shallow flats — the green that defines a flooded-farmland reservoir this shallow.
Where largemouth bury as the shallows heat up — worked with spinnerbaits on cloudy, windy days and topwater after dark around full moons.
Regulations
This is a summary, not the legal regulation — confirm current rules with the official source before fishing.