Some of the best areas on any body of water that you will visit don't look like much, but in fact, flats in all lakes harbor fish nearly every month of the year. No, I'm not talking about creeks or channels . I am talking about very easy areas to fish, where finding the mother lode is very possible and where someone else finding your fish is very near impossible.
Flats are super.
Whether you're fishing Needmore or Caney at Sam Rayburn, the southwest side of Wolf Island at Ray Roberts, or parking lots at Truman Reservoir, in Missouri, flats offer some of the best and easiest fishing in any lake. When most anglers think of flats, they think of shallow water, say five to 10 feet deep. Shallow is a relative term. It all depends on the lake. If the lake is known for deep-water fishing, the flats you fish may be 35 to 45 feet deep.