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Fished a lake today called Summit, in east Central Indiana. Caught 17,
without a single keeper. What do you guys think I should have changed to
find the bigger guys?

Here's lake info and what I did:
Lake is usually clear to 5ft or so. Today, it was a little dingier then
normal and about a foot higher, with the water level dropping very slowly.
I could see a white lute in about three feet of water. The lake is around
800 acres, and has major weedbeds of coontail, with interspersed beds of
curlyleaf pondweed deep, and slender pondweed up shallow. The reservoir is
of the age where many of the old stick-ups have fallen over into the water.
There were not a lot to begin with.
Wind was blowing about 15mph from the north/northeast, and the lake
offers very little relief from the wind, so it whitecaps pretty easily.
I found my fish in two basic places. First was on points with the wind
blowing directly in on them, or across, with stick-ups in place or fallen
down. I was casting a Bill Norman Middle N crankbait (in white with a lt
purple back) in and retrieving it with the rod tip high to work my way over
the weeds. The second was around the larger stick-ups that were next to an
old channel. I have marked up my topo and placed it on the rofb website.

http://rofb.net/gallery//displayimage.php?pos=-28

One thing to keep in mind, this lake is very busy, and usully has a boat on
almost every point by 7:00am. I had the majority of windblown points to
myself because of the windspeed today, but it made it dificult to fish a
soft plastic without a heavy weight. The heavy weight causes tons of
hangups in the weeds...sooooo.... I tried a 6"culprit a little today but
wasn't really into while catching 17 small bass on a crankbait... :-)

Anyone like to add their input, jump right in...
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