Hey, Keith here. As bank anglers, we're always on the lookout for more places to fish from the bank. 

And I'm always happy to report on them.

After the last couple of newsletters, I received messages from quite a few readers eager to share the secret spots you've been sitting on for years.

Real places, with real addresses, that you found on your own through the kind of legwork most anglers never bother with.

I even dug one out of my own back pocket, a little pond just off Interstate 12 here in Louisiana, that's very good to me after a hard rain.

Today I want to pass all of it along. These spots belong to this community now.

It's not as if the ponds scattered along the country's interstate system are any great secret; you can often see them from the road. But most people don't know how they got there—or that you can fish them.

When an interstate is built, construction crews use the earth from surrounding areas to build up a base for it. Among other functions, these "borrow pits" fill up with the water leaving the highway and eventually grow into fishable ponds.

Last week I got the chance to fish a favorite of mine here in Louisiana. 

If you're traveling west on Interstate 12 between Lacombe and Mandeville, there is a pond sitting just off the right side of the highway.

Pull off the road, push through a few yards of woods, and you're there.

What makes this pond special is the culvert on the west side of it. 

After a hard rain, clean water pours out of the culvert directly into the pond, creating a visible mixing line right at the mouth of the drain.

Baitfish are drawn to the cleaner, oxygenated water near the drain, and bass stack up just outside that line, using it as an ambush point.

The mixing line concentrates fish that would otherwise be scattered along the entire shoreline, and that is a massive advantage when you're on foot.

Timing is everything with this spot.

If the rain hits in the afternoon, be at that culvert first light the next morning. Let the rain do its work, then show up when the buffet is fully open.

On one of those mornings, I tied on my Zumverno 95 SP jerkbait, made my first cast right along that mixing line, and felt the line go tight before I had even completed the retrieve.

A solid two-pound bass.

I never moved from that spot all morning, and I ended up landing 11 fish. Every single one came from within a few feet of where that culvert dumps into the pond.

Now that I've shared my spot here in Louisiana, let's fan out and cover some reader spots across the country.

Our first spot was submitted by Cody Harrell of Garland, Texas.

Cody has been fishing White Rock Lake for years but says most anglers never find the spot that has treated him best.

"Everybody walks straight to the piers and never looks back," he wrote. "If you park along East Lawther Drive off Garland Road, behind the Arboretum, and walk the shoreline, you've got concrete slabs, grass beds, and man-made fish reefs that most people don't even know are there."

He says the bank really shines during the spring spawn, when largemouth use the shallow, structured bottom to fan their nests.

Cody has pulled fish over seven pounds from this stretch.

This past May, he walked that bank with a Rat-L-Trap and put a five-pounder on the bank. 

"Don't waste your time on the docks," he said. "Walk the bank."

Parking is free all along East Lawther. Just follow the shoreline and fish the water most people are walking past on their way somewhere else.

Here is a spot that was submitted by Marcus Thibodeau of Pembroke Pines, Florida.

Marcus says most people who stop at Sawgrass Recreation Park never make it past the airboat dock.

"Everyone pulls in and buys a tour ticket," he said. "But if you walk the levee north along the canal that runs parallel to the highway, you've got some of the best bank fishing in South Florida sitting right there and nobody is touching it."

The directions are simple.

Take I-75 to exit 23 and head north on US Highway 27 for about two miles.

Park at Sawgrass Recreation Park at 1006 US-27 and walk the levee bank along the north canal.

"I've had mornings out there where I lost count," he told me. "Bass after bass, right from the bank using a weightless Salty Super Fluke, while people 20 feet away were waiting in line for an airboat."

Here is a spot that was submitted by Dave Kowalski of Akron, Ohio.

Dave has been fishing Nimisila Reservoir for years and says most people in the area treat it like a kayaking lake and nothing more.

"Everyone out here knows about Nimisila," he said. "But they're paddling around on it, not fishing it. The bank fishing is something else entirely."

The main park entrance is at 5550 Christman Road in Green, Ohio, about 10 miles south of Akron.

The reservoir has 16 miles of shoreline, and no gas motors are allowed, which means the water stays quiet and the fish stay unpressured.

Dave says the key is putting in a little legwork rather than stopping at the first easy access point off the parking lot.

"Stay away from the spots where you can park and walk 50 feet to the water," he said. "Get down to the dam and spillway area off South Main Street at Jones Road and you'll find fish that haven't seen many lures."

Dave recommends spinnerbaits during the summer months and has done a lot of damage with his gold and white Hildebrant Go Getter spinnerbait. 

Earlier this year he caught a 7.5-pound largemouth out of the reservoir, which tells you everything you need to know about what's swimming around in there.