No one thinks Patterson is good during the summer, but it's because they use the wrong stuff. my dad and I went fishing last summer and asked how fishing was and everyone said it was no good. We showed them though by catching like 10 12-15 inchers by using roostertails with about a foot of leader trolling with one or two clamp on weights. The only thing to worry about is the little bass that bite on your line, but I almost pulled in a huge largemouth bass when you troll deep on the other side with all the weeds.