Features to include on a map are depth, type of bottom, current, shelter and weed beds.

The bigger ones are caught on a large live minnow on a jighead, especially when fished over weed beds.

They can often be found around weed beds, where they search for food or spawn.

It is also possible to wade through some of the weed beds, but soft, muddy bottoms limit this approach.

The immediate sea is shallow with extensive weed beds.

So did the victory gardens that had become weed beds taking the corroded plaques with the names of the neighborhood dead with them.

The only significant weed beds are located in the inlet and outlet coves.

In recent years the weed beds in the river have been sprayed to reduce numbers.

Even when numbed by the ice, they fight hard, peeling off line as they bulldog their way into a nearby weed bed.

And while many have been caught, many more remain out of reach, hidden in the lake's weed beds.