Water depths of the big bass -

Besides during the spawn....giant bass in California are most frequently caught in 15' - 30' of water here in California year round. The Floridas tend to feed for short periods of the day and move up from deep water or suspended over very deep water and move up to key structure spots where they can use the structure as a barrier to trap and then catch trout or shad. The addition of striped bass in many larger impoundments has seemed to make the larger bass more pelagic and they tend to suspend more over deep water more so in the days when stripers were not as abundant.

Dave