Largemouth Bass
The dock and pier cover is the shortcut. Pinehurst is a small warm kettle bowl fringed with weedy shallows, and the largemouth spread across every green edge of it — the fish anglers log here more than any other. Start on the shoreline wood and the weed lines, because on a lake this compact the whole rim is bass water and you can cover it from a canoe in a morning.
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This is a warm, shallow, weedy lake with one deep spot, and the largemouth work the shallow two-thirds of that equation for most of the year. From the late-June opener through fall they hold the weedy shoreline flats and the dock and pier cover, ambushing the bluegill and pumpkinseed sunfish that fill the same shallows.
Fish weed lines and wood early and late; flip the docks through the midday heat. When midsummer bakes the shallows, follow the flats to where they drop into the roughly 35-foot central basin — the one real depth change on the lake, and a cooler edge to slide along.
There's no motor allowed here, gas or electric, so this is a paddle-and-pick-apart fishery: choose a stretch of cover and work it thoroughly rather than running the bank.
Structure
The lake's core largemouth habitat — the weed flats ringing the kettle hold fish and forage from the June opener through fall.
The hard cover along the developed and day-use shoreline; classic largemouth ambush spots to flip through the day. (From the Fishbrain amenity listing — angler-platform.)
Where the shallow flats tip into the lake's one deep hole — a hot-weather edge for bass sliding off the cooking shallows.
Regulations
This is a summary, not the legal regulation — confirm current rules with the official source before fishing.