If you fish those lakes how many years have you been going? For me, started bank fishing them in '75 with my dad. He got a boat in 1980, and we fished them a bunch.

All we did until about 1995 was crappie fish them. Been interesting to see the changes as the lakes have aged. Think the amount of people that go was higher in the 80's than now, at least in spring. Offshore summer bite was harder to do then because of the technology wasn't as good. It was more about finding deep brush for us in summer, but if you did it would stay loaded up with fish. Know some of the best places were trees in 30-40 ft of water that the fish would suspend in. Of course those trees are long gone.