Really when you start fishing these docks it can get confusing for a lot of people
About the best advice I can give you Is where would you fish if there are no boat
docks And then use the boat docks as an added piece
of cover to that particular bank
And then you take it one step further and you try to figure out where they're at
on the boat docks and how to trigger the strike
You know they can be in a lot of different places
and when you first start out you're basically fishing the whole boat dock
And then when you do get a bite you pay attention to where it was.
Was it on the windy side was it on the calm side
was it on the deep side was it on a post
was it on the walkway you know was it way up underneath the slip
in the darkest possible area You just have to analyze all that
Everyone wants the magic answer there are no magic answers
Fishing is just common sense Pay attention to things that work
and duplicate them And thats what a lot of people won't do.
they get a bite and they naturally get excited as they should
but they won't look at how deep the water is
Wont look exactly what the wind was doing and the type of bank they were on
If you analyze all that It makes it a lot easier to duplicate
and that's really what you need to do. Is duplicate the things that are working
It doesn't happen just like that everytime we go on the water
Once in a while it takes a lot of elimination You can be doing everything correct
but you might just be in the wrong area. They're certainly not everywhere
There should be one here. Ladders
That's another good example Anything different
It could be a rope there we go
Come here You're supposed to be bigger than that
What you're doing when you make the presentation And I'll show you as soon as I get my Rodent
re-rigged. you really have to be aware what your lure
is doing on the drop whether you're pitching boat docks
or flipping down through grass or whatever it is,
lure awareness is absolutely critical So when you make that pitch
right next to the cover, soft as you can you're letting the lure fall on a slack line
but you don't want a WHOLE BUNCH of slack because
if you have a bunch of slack like I have right there
you don't if you got a bite or not that fish could be running around a brush
pile down there So if you've got a controlled amount of line,
as it's sinking. You know when you get the bite and you can
respond immediately when you get that bite
Very very important to have that lure awareness at all times
Well we got a bite on the first boat dock I don't know if that's good or bad luck
But that may tell us something He was on the outter edge of it
laying in about 7 foot of water 57 degree water temp
and he was on the windy side where the wind was pushing in
and also on the sunny side He wasn't pushed way back up under the shade
So that fish maybe just... what will happen a lot of times in the afternoon
the shad will get on the surface and they will
move back into these pockets even stronger and those fish will pull out to the edge where
they are at the same level as the bait where they can just pull out
and ambush them as they come by may have been what that fish was waiting to
do