Whether fishing a lake for the first time, or for the thousandth time, visiting its points is a shortcut to immediate fishing success. These topographical lake structures provide smallmouths with a multitude of benefits that are essential for feeding, homing, and survival. Structure-oriented by nature, smallmouths gravitate to points because they create a bridge connecting the shoreline to open water. Points are their structural highways and staging locations during the spring and fall seasonal migrations, linking shallow water locations to the lake’s deepest basins. All year long, smallmouths will utilize the specific locations and depths of points for staging, spawning, and wintering. Points are readily visible to the naked eye. Studying a lake’s aerial and topographical maps, Lowrance C-Map chart, and Navionics, points are commonly the most obvious and prominent structures of lakes. Not every lake was blessed and created with structural features, nor has them. These shore extensions create contour and underwater irregularities, attracting both fish and anglers overhead.   Points Defined By definition, points are land and shoreline extensions pro