Lake Bolivar is a 1200-acre lake that averages a depth of only 5 feet. It contains a good population of a wide variety of fish and some aquatic vegetation includes duckweed and coontail. The lake is an ancient remnant of the Mississippi River created centuries ago by a natural cutoff at Bolivar Bend. There are dozens of pilings from an old bridge that extends across the lake which hold large numbers of bass. The scenery consists of lines of large cypress trees backed by vast agricultural fields.