fishing tatics

Question
QUESTION: Tomorrow afternoon i will be going fishing at Rocky Mountain resevoir in Northwest GA. The water is clear to a little bit stained. I will be fishing from a boat. I was wondering what lures/baits you suggest and where would be the best places to try my luck for largemouth bass. I have fished there before but never from a boat. There has been multiple 10 + pound bass caught in this lake.
ANSWER: Michael; I am sorry that I didn't get your message until today for some reason and You are now fishing I hope.  Anyway it would probably have done little good because I am not at all familiar with that lake.  About all I could have done would have been give you some general information on how to look for bass in most any lake in any part of the country.  I can do that in a few sentences.
L. Bass want cover, weeds,stumps trees trash etc.  They may be IN it ABOVE it, BELOW it BESIDE it or OUT AWAY FROM it but there will be cover nearby somewhere.  Bass also relate to structure.  That is changes in the lake bottom i.e. a dropoff, a rise, a point, a channel, a hole something different on the bottom from that around it.  If there is a drop off they may be at the bottom of it, on the lip of it or back aways on the top of it.  Put these two things together and there will be bass around except in case of the spawn or during very hot or very cold water.  During the spawn they will be up shallow but not all at once.  Some will still be out on the lip of that drop off or down at the bottom of the channel or hole but not far from the shallow spawning area.
In winter they will usually be deeper than at any other time.  In the summer they may be deep but never below the thermoclime which varies from lake to lake and with temperature and wind.

Without knowing the lake itself that is about all I can do.  Look for conditions where bass have good cover in or near deeper water and you have bass.

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QUESTION: Sunday though. I did some research and found a couple of articles on the Georgia Sportsman magazine website. They said to look for the dropoffs in about 10 to 15 feet of water and there are some submerged rockpiles in the lake. They said to use a jig with a trailer and  a medium running crankbait. Do you think most of the female's are done spawning and headed back to deeper water now?  

Answer
Michael; Thanks for the follow up.  That information sounds about right.  I understand that is more of a rocky lake than ours so rocks rather than stumps might be the better cover.
I doubt that all the females have finished spawning.  If my information is correct that is a highland reservoir and much deeper than here.  Seldom if ever do all the fish of a species spawn at exactly the same time.  Usually they will begin in the shallower end of the lake and work their way down.  If they are saying look in 10-15 feet of water you may be looking for pre spawners or post spawners or possibly some of both.  

I wish I could be of more help but I have had very little experience with highland lakes.

JackfromSeminole