These are good bass habitat during a high water situation, providing cover in the limbs. Medium size trees have good size roots systems as well as limbs that may hang low to the water offering shade as well as cover for bass away from the trunk of the tree. Also, the limbs harbor insects and other creatures important to the food chain. Large trees have trunks with large indentations, offering a place for large and small fish to hide. Also these large trees have massive root systems and provide much shade from the large limbs.
Cypress trees offer year-round bass habitat.
Spring time means warming water temperatures and movement by bass into shallow water. Also the dark color of the bark of cypress trees make water around trees on the north-west banks warmer than other waters. When the water temperatures approach 60 degrees bass can be found spawning around cypress trees from the slanting bases of large trees to the cypress knees surrounding trees. If it s spawning season and you can t find fish directly besides the trunk of the trees, try water several feet from the tree. Start by positioning your boat as far away as possible from the tree and making long casts.