Help me plot my fishing trip!

[morrow50]

Hey everyone

I figured with the combined brain trust here I will have a better chance at success in locating fish on this lake. I will list as much info as I know and you guys can give your input.

This lake is about 4-6 acres, natural made, creek fed by one main creek located by the arrow. The lake recieves very little fishing pressure. The bottom is a muck type mostly of dead leaves. Around boat landing area, bottom consists or redclay and small amount of sand. No rocks of note can be found anywhere on site.

Dam has fairly rapid and consistant dropoff from 0 to 15-18 depth within 10 feet from the bank. Both banks drop off fairly rapidly as well to the same depth but more gradual. Marker "3" is just off a small point that if you look across to the other point across the lake is where another depth change takes place. In the area of markers 1,2, and 5 depth change is gradual then a sudden drop from 6ft to 15ft.

On two trips to the lake, I boated some 72 crappie on the first trip, and 41 the second trip. Those fish were found in marker positions, 1 and 2. There is a multiple of laying logs and small tree stumps in this area. Textbook position for a structure type pattern. I hooked and landed a 3.5lb bass on marker 2. Fishing at marker 1 back to the wood structure, I hooked and lost a fish in the 6 to 7lb range. With those fish a few smaller fish were taken off the isolated stump at marker 5.

The air temp will be in the 50's and water temps will be in low to mid 40's. Reports in the surrounding area have been active for this time of year with bass been caught on everything from pig and jig to medium running crankbaits.

I will be aboard a small boat with no electronics. I have to go about this by my own instincts and the information I gather here. Any input and advice will be helpful. This particular place has given me a bit of trouble. The fish don't seem to be as structured oriented as I would have thought. Without a depth finder, I might be missing a secondary point or underwater feature that might hold the secret.

Below is the map, I sketched out in Photoshop. Thank you in advance on this little venture.



Mike