Curious to know how you pick which trees to fish? I usually put in at Buck Creek, but it's always hit or miss for me. Sometimes I find good trees and other times I don't. I don't get too far from the ramp usually because I'm in a kayak, but it gets overwhelming with the massive amounts of standing timber there. Just looking to have more of a starting point. (I.e. hairy looking trees, trees sitting out from the rest, big trees, etc.)

Thanks!

Curious to know how you pick which trees to fish? I usually put in at Buck Creek, but it's always hit or miss for me. Sometimes I find good trees and other times I don't. I don't get too far from the ramp usually because I'm in a kayak, but it gets overwhelming with the massive amounts of standing timber there. Just looking to have more of a starting point. (I.e. hairy looking trees, trees sitting out from the rest, big trees, etc.)

Thanks!

Went out yesterday after work, fished until dark. Caught 6 drum and 1 keeper crappie. Don't listen to me....

I have a few "pet trees" that have produced for me year after year but mostly I just bounce and try to fish isolated trees on the edge of something. By edge I mean a point or a creek or road bed or something like that but isolated timber seems to be best for me. Also like stated above the fish seem to suspend part way down and many bites happen for me on the initial drop, have to be a line watcher as the bait falls through the tree. As far as what kind of tree, any and all but I am partial to a nice gnarly bois d arc. The way I fish in the summer is drop the minnow through a given tree and if I do not get bit by about the third drop or after about 5 minutes, I am off to the next tree. Seems you need to cover water to find the sweet trees but when you do, you may not have to move again the rest of the day. This particular trip a few weeks ago, I got on one tree after an hour or so of hunting and went through at least 3 doz. minnows in that tree before the bite slowed.

This year has been a little off for me up there. But the lake has been up and down with two high water rises with all the rains. When they open up the flood gates and the water is dropping I seem to struggle. I have been fishing the timber up there since the early 90's and have about 15 pet trees. Normally I only use minnows, but the jig bite this year has been real good for me. Now that the lake is just about to get to normal level it will be real good till mid October.