Bay / Creek Arm: Where they sit

Mouth shoulders, mid-bay channel swings, and the last break in the back

Where bass set up inside a bay depends on their stage along the migration trail: near the mouth, they hold on the inside shoulders of main-lake points; in the mid-section, they concentrate where the submerged creek channel swings against a bank or brushes the tip of a secondary point; in the back third, they hold along the last definable depth change, perimeter grass edges, isolated wood, or hard-bottom patches.

Example: bay mouth at 22 ft, mid-bay creek channel at 12–14 ft, and back flat at 3–5 ft. If baitfish and bites are concentrated where the 12 ft channel brushes an 8 ft mid-bay secondary point, run that exact mid-bay node across neighboring bays rather than burning an hour in lifeless 2 ft back-bay silt.

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