Across many lakes, largemouths will go as shallow as nature allows. They’ll sun bathe and absorb all the newly created oxygen being produced by emergent plant life and other organisms. Nearly all fishing efforts will be taking place in depths of 5-feet and less. Here are each of their potential lake regions and individual habitats you must seek out.   Backwaters All throughout May, backwaters attract and concentrate many largemouths. Here in the north, they are often associated with creeks and inflows, flowage flood plains, river oxbows, shallow bays located long distances away from the main lake, and any nooks and crannies that spill into marshland and tamarack swamp. Backwater depths and habitats are very shallow, often 5-feet or less. Largemouths will only use these lake regions seasonally, from ice out through spawn. The best backwater systems will contain a few ditches and deeper holes formed by old channels. These locations almost always have stained brown water, and a few inflow sources providing current. And there is no shortage of fish cover, plant life, and submerged wood either.  Immediately at ice-out, backwaters attract and concen