Very good information. The pictures do a very good job of explaining.

Wow, thanks Donald.

Great examples. Thanks. Yesterday I went back to Roberts and scanned a bunch of roads and focused on the intersections, culverts and creek crossings in a variety of depths. I could not see much in the way of fish or bait. Are there still fish there I cant see, are these structures only effective if there is bait present, etc...? For some reason I expect to see some fish stacked in there, like you would see at Fork. I never did fish any of them but would have if I saw something interesting.

Most road beds are shallow and move off into deeper water. If you find a culvert in 15 ft. of water and are trying to see what is there get away from it. and use the Side Scan. Using Sonar or Down Scan show only a limited amount of the bottom. All I need to see is one or two fish and I am going to fish it. Never pass up structure where it crosses a creek. This is a stopping place. The larger it is, the deeper it is the better it is.

For me, the Ray Roberts roadbeds seemed to stop producing fish for me 6-8 years ago. I had a handful I could go and get a few bass on almost every trip. Now they are like a ghost town. Seems the water fluctuation killed all the grass around these roadbeds, and the fish moved on to better pastures, which I have not had much luck finding!!

Try scanning the railroad bed in the Buck Creek area to see how fish relate to the bed. It has a decent drop, it is mostly raised, and seems good at holding fish around that creek channel bend. I've only caught whites the time I hit it, but I've scanned it other times and looked promising.

Thanks to everyone for input. Greatly appreciated. Redskeet100...throw a chartreuse square bill on rock in arms. It was money yesterday in Sand for fish up to 4#. Make multiple casts when you catch one. There are more! Water was 56 degrees and the fish were shallow.

Mentioning fish shallow: When I map good contours with irregular features in 15 to 20 of water; always go shallow from those on a couple of good warm days this time of year. They will move up from those irregular features to the shallows.

Excellent posting, way to start the new year...

Thanks for the tip. I just relocated to Tulsa, OK, so going to have all new challenges finding fish, but at least I will have an excuse being on new lakes!!!

Ray Roberts used to be awesome for me, but once the tourney fishing started, it seems the fish moved around probably due to the pressure, and I never made the appropriate adjustments to stay on them consistently. I still had the good day from time to time, but there were a lot more 0, 1 or 2 fish days to make me crazy.

Broken up old house foundations next to the roads, bar ditches/fence lines with timber and or brush, and the very edge of the old asphalt where it is all broken and chunky have always been good to me out there. Just a plain road bed looks promising but I don't think it is enough and rarely seem to hold fish. The very shallow flat ones can and do draw schools of sand bass in the evenings in the summer.

Now I would have fished that if I saw it!

Those that posted graph pictures can you circle what you see as fish and the specific sweet spots that you are evaluating. This is an awesome post. I need to spend more time SI than making multiple downscan passes.

Great pictures Donald. Really helps to explain road beds and helps to see travel routes. Thanks