Find a place like that with flooded buck brush, laydowns, stick-ups and stumps and you'll find bass. Lake Fork guide and B.A.S.S. touring pro Richard McCarty agreed with Martin and theorizes that the shallow move hinges partly on water temperature. The top layer in shallow water contains all kinds of particles that absorb all the heat from the sunlight, so naturally it is going to warm up the quickest. That's where the fish are going to be. No two lakes are the same.
Some reservoirs are quicker to turn muddy than others.
Some lakes clear faster than others. Different, too, are the ways bass react to an influx of dirty water. Some bass populations don't change their habits much in mud, whereas others may slip into total shock. Having prior knowledge of these behavioral characteristics can go a long towards helping the angler pinpoint the most productive water on a selected body of water. McCarty referred to Lake Fork to explain this scenario.