Seasons of Bass

 Buck Perry On Bass Seasonal Reservoir Location (1973)

✅ An important notation that should be made is that when working coves and bays in the cooler season, a good rule of thumb would be:

(1) - pick coves and bays that are close to the deepest water in the area (usually the channel.)
(2) - DO NOT SPEND TIME IN BAYS AND COVES WHICH DO NOT CONTAIN SOME SORT OF CHANNEL OR FEEDER STREAM. In other words, if a cove or bay is a wide, flat area, with no sign of a channel - stay out.

✅ A good rule of thumb, to apply to SEASONAL movements of bass and fishing in a reservoir, is this: start with the first part of the year.
In the colder weather the first consideration would be to the steeper shorelines with steep, short structures. 

✅ As the season moves toward the pre-spawning season, check the steeper shores less and increase attention toward coves, bays and short bars adjacent to these areas. These coves or bays, with their shorter structures, would be worked heavy during the spawning season.

✅ After the spawning season leave the steep shoreline, most of the coves and bays, and direct your attention to the longer, flatter structures in the main body of the reservoir.
In other words, the spawning season would be the dividing line between the steeper, shorter (cold weather) structures and the flatter, longer (warm weather) structures. 

✅ In the late fall, head back toward the cold weather side.

PS at all times, when seeking these structures, give priority to those whaich are adjacent to the deepest water in an area. Idealy you want a direct connection from the deeper water to the structure