DUH! Thanks for pointing out what should be the obvious Rick! Sometimes ya gotta just slap me!

The hot spot did produce 9 keepers a week later but they weren’t as big as the first weekend.
I’ve tried every other object that sticks out of the water but haven’t found anything productive. I think it’s because they are all in the six feet deep range.
At 14 feet deep – how much bottom am I looking at with my Piranha 215? 3 to 4 feet diameter maybe?
We always head straight to “the spot” and I haven’t really searched too much for similar sunken trees but being a flood control lake and plenty of trees in the water along the wooded edges, there is a good chance there are more lurking below the surface.
I’ve seen years when they raise the water level as much as 30 feet and everything on the hillsides floats in. The problem is that everything gets buried in mud in a short time and there are no weed beds in the lake.