I live near a lake that is really an old flooded quarry.  I do not own a boat, however, the lake is not very wide, so I can do fine without one.  There very few shallow spots, but theres shelves that have vertical drops in between.  And there are no slopes.
Very hard lake to fish, any tips would be apreciated.
Thanks!

It would be nice to know a bit about your quarry. Where is it? What kind of water temps? What kind of fish are there? Is there any vegetation? Lacking better info, try the shelves and drop-offs with baits appropriate to the target species. Tom

It would also depend on forage available...as if there isn't any hanging out near the few shallow areas...the predators will be chasing the schools out in open water away from the banks.

JMHO...and we could use better info. If we could find an online map...or even see a drawing of the depths...it would be of great help.

Jigs...jigging spoons (Kastmaster)...deeper running cranks running parallel with the bank.

I'd be inclined to invest in a float tube to get out further.

Take a look at the map (tif or pdf) of the lakes on this webpage...and are these anything like yours?

http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/lakefind...apid=B0522

I grew up about 35 miles away from these

I guess quary  fishing differs all of the country--depending on what was taken from the quarry and HOW?  The "how" refers to what was removed and what condition it was left.  I have been fortunate to fish a lot of quarries.  Amazingly, one or two that I thought offered no opportunity turned out to be the best.  Most of them do not get overly fished and most are long and narrow, providing lots of access to fish from shore or boat.  I prefer fishing from a boat because my disabilites keep me from being able to stand very long.
A dear friend invited me to join him and fish a very private quarry.  The owner had stocked it about three years before with large mouth bass.  The water was very clear and fishing went slow.  I rumaged through my old tackle box and found a small jointed MirroLure in a bass color.  About the same time we came upon what must have been an old well or sping.   On my first cast I jerked the lure out of the bass's mouth because I could see him about to hit it.  Threw right back and a nice bas**** it.  As I reeled him in another bas**** it and I had one on each treble hook, before I could get it to the boat another one hit it, knocking one off and getting caught himself.  Most of the bass we caught were yearlings about two or three pounds.  Overall, we caught about fifty during the day but we left early enough for me to go by tackle shop and buy up the rest of that color.  Two years later my job took me to that community and the owner of the lake gave me a key to the gate and the cabin he had built on the lake.  Needless to say that quarry has always been on the top of my list but I have had some hard times finding the identical MirroLure.  Get a chance try some of those nearby quarries.  Uncle Tom

yeah, i live very close to a quarry lake also this helps, Tower Hill Pond is where it is, NH

Posted By UncleTomJigs on 04 Apr 2011 04:19 PM
I guess quary  fishing differs all of the country--depending on what was taken from the quarry and HOW?  The "how" refers to what was removed and what condition it was left.  I have been fortunate to fish a lot of quarries.  Amazingly, one or two that I thought offered no opportunity turned out to be the best.  Most of them do not get overly fished and most are long and narrow, providing lots of access to fish from shore or boat.  I prefer fishing from a boat because my disabilites keep me from being able to stand very long.
A dear friend invited me to join him and fish a very private quarry.  The owner had stocked it about three years before with large mouth bass.  The water was very clear and fishing went slow.  I rumaged through my old tackle box and found a small jointed MirroLure in a bass color.  About the same time we came upon what must have been an old well or sping.   On my first cast I jerked the lure out of the bass's mouth because I could see him about to hit it.  Threw right back and a nice bas**** it.  As I reeled him in another bas**** it and I had one on each treble hook, before I could get it to the boat another one hit it, knocking one off and getting caught himself.  Most of the bass we caught were yearlings about two or three pounds.  Overall, we caught about fifty during the day but we left early enough for me to go by tackle shop and buy up the rest of that color.  Two years later my job took me to that community and the owner of the lake gave me a key to the gate and the cabin he had built on the lake.  Needless to say that quarry has always been on the top of my list but I have had some hard times finding the identical MirroLure.  Get a chance try some of those nearby quarries.  Uncle Tom

Tom....take a look on this webpage. Do any of these look like what you are talking about?

http://nflcc.org/CPG/displayimage.p...m=7&pos=51

Dave Quarry fishing does not mean ya use Dynamite LOL!!!!

The ones around where I live are coal pits the coal pits with vegetation I fish like I would a pond and watch out for snakes they love old pits