it with long pauses to attract a suspended bass is a great way to milk a few more fish off that hot dock you just found.
This pattern comes into play especially early in the year and then again in early fall as big balls of bait will hold around key docks on a lake. For me, the Rapala Shadow Rap in the shallow version has been great for targeting these bass, as I can cast it with ease and its unique action in the water column calls bass in from underneath the dock.
Many times the cover in the immediate vicinity of the boat dock is vegetation and the bass will move back and forth from it for its protection.
To effectively target these roaming bass, I like to use a ¼-ounce swim jig with a Zoom UV Speed Craw or Z-Craw Jr trailer, in either a white color scheme or bluegill pattern with a green pumpkin trailer, as these color combos mimic shad and bluegills up shallow.
Another great bait option for fishing around boat docks and the shallow cover that surrounds
it, is a soft plastic hollow-bodied swimbait as these baits can be fished fast, slow, shallow or deep and look like the food bass want to be eating. The new Zoom 4” Swimmer rigged on a weighted TroKar swimbait hook can he cast easily into the dock openings and then brought back to the boat.
As summer approaches the time to chase bass under and around boat docks is upon bass anglers, so be sure to scout them out using your electronics and mapping chip, so you can identify the docks with deeper water on them. For me relying on my Humminbird HELIX units and LakeMaster mapping chip is just as important dock fishing, as it is when I’m fishing offshore!
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