| When I was a kid, a way long time ago, there | | | | the dock or just drift up to it and flip or pitch |
| was this old man who fished Buckeye Lake and | | | | your lure. |
| caught more bass than anyone I knew at the | | | | Some good lures for fishing for bass at boat |
| time. His bass fishing technique was to fish boat | | | | docks are a jig, worm, crankbait and spinnerbait. |
| docks. His lures were all beat up, most of them | | | | Of course, you want to throw as far back under |
| missing paint and some were even bare wood | | | | the dock as you can but make sure on the |
| from hitting them on the docks so many times. | | | | retrieve that the lure bumps the dock's post as it |
| His bass fishing tip to me was to fish boat docks | | | | goes by them. The erratic behavior of the lure |
| and to fish them thoroughly. | | | | sometimes produces a strike. If you're using a |
| Boat docks produce shade and bass feel secure in | | | | crankbait, you can bend the eye and make it run |
| low light areas. Docks also provide a place for | | | | under the dock or use a coffin-bill lure. While the |
| bass to ambush their prey. Sometimes when you | | | | lure doesn't run true it does get farther under the |
| see rod holders and lights at a dock there's a | | | | boat dock where the bass are. |
| chance there's some kind of structure there too. | | | | Boat docks are one of my favorite places to |
| Maybe a brushpile or rocks that the owner has | | | | bass fish and apparently the bass like them too. |
| produced. Use your trolling motor to get close to | | | | |