{"id":697,"date":"2022-06-28T16:29:15","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T16:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bassblog.org\/?p=697"},"modified":"2022-06-28T16:30:49","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T16:30:49","slug":"everything-you-need-to-know-about-fishing-roadbeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bassblog.org\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-fishing-roadbeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything You Need to Know About Fishing Roadbeds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Roadbeds are my personal favorite type of offshore structure to catch bass off of. They\u2019re how I learned how to catch bass offshore and one of the first things I try to find whenever I start examining new water. Bass love them, and if you\u2019re new to offshore fishing, they are arguably the easiest offshore structure to fish effectively. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A roadbed is simply a road that became submerged when a reservoir was flooded. They\u2019re only found in man-made lakes for obvious reasons, and they are some of the best offshore structure you can find. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Roadbeds can set up in a lot of different ways and two are rarely the same. If and when fish use them can depend on where in the lake they are, how deep they are, how depth variation they provide, and more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
So why are these things such bass magnets? Well, for starters, the hard road surface provides a hard bottom, which bass prefer as a rule. Many also provide a significant depth change, which makes for suitable bass habitat as well. A lot of roads had a bridge over the main river channel prior to the reservoir flooding, which is usually blown out and creates a situation where the road runs right up to the river channel. A lot of roads, much like the roads that cross your lake now, are elevated and provide rocky drop-off on either side. All of these things make primo bass habitat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Actually finding road beds on your lake can be kind of tricky, but mapping resources are getting more accurate by the day and there are a few tricks you can use to shorten the process<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many of the mapping apps out there will actually show you where road beds are, which is great, but the accuracy is, um, not great. Sometimes there is a road there, sometimes there is not, and even if there is, it\u2019s often not in the right place. There are road beds on your lake that are not on navionics, for example, and these will always be places that see less fishing pressure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n