Mapping a New Lake

[thebus71h]

To be completely honest, I never look at Topo maps, depthfinders, or any of that stuff. Well, maybe a depthfinder every once in a while, but thats only if I'm in a new spot of water so I know how deep it is.

Reason being, we had a tourney on Lake Summit a year ago, and I had a topo map all marked with where we wanted to fish. We hit the first couple spots, not a darn thing, I threw the map in my tackle bag, fired up the motor, and started driving around lookin for a good spot, well we found one just by looking at structure coming up out of the water, points, and al that good stuff. We ended up 5th in that tourney out of 18 boats, and it was our first time on that lake. What looks good to you, try it out, and if it doesn't work out, before you leave, figure out WHY it didn't work out, and remember that.