Somewhere out there, out in the uncharted and unexplored abyss of the deepest, coldest, and clearest inland lakes, an open water world exists where offshore roaming predators hunt together and follow around pelagic prey. For the majority of their lives, the biggest smallmouths living in the lake roam about in no-man’s land, elusively chase smelt and cisco schools, and are never to be caught by hook and line. That was the life of an unexploited offshore open water smallmouth until the advent of livescope imaging, whose technologies are now installed to the boats of many anglers. Despite today’s high-end technologies and forward-facing sonars, a majority of these elusive smallmouths remain to be caught, and are still seldom ever targeted successfully whether they are suspending offshore or become deep-water structure oriented as the year progresses. Right about now (early July), as soon as summer patterns establish, smallmouths scatter into open water lake regions to chase suspended schools of ciscoes and smelt, whose populations are cresting in annual abundance. So much high-protein food exists right now across these specific fisheries that smallmouths