Across northern lakes, largemouths tend to seek the deepest edges and weed cover available, but where dense shallow cover is available, fish will also gravitate to these lake areas as well. Largemouths thrive in slop, utilizing it for their living quarters and prolific feeding. In these locations, largemouths frequently hunt for small prey that includes an assortment of unsuspecting juvenile panfish, insects, and amphibians. Most ambushing takes place near-surface. This heavy feeding delivers some of the most explosive, fun fishing of summer. With the Minocqua Chain and many other nutrient-rich drainage lakes being my home waters, largemouth bass are often seeking shallow cover if they aren’t positioning themselves up against available deep weed lines. On these heavily vegetated lakes around Minocqua, WI, their shallows are full of emergent plants. Wood and stumps play an important role too. By late May, the shallows are warming fast, sprouting with a combination of brown cabbage, and wild rice. Spatterdock lilies start growing too, and their root systems and sub-surface leafs offer more cover. Shortly later in early June, eelgrass beds emerge in combination w