Any Tips For Fish'n Floating Docks?

[Wiskers]

I'm always looking for new ways to fish. I fish Ky. Lake which has an unbelieveable amount of floating docks. I'd like to see how some of you fish this type of dock. I personally do some pitch'n & dipp'n.

[crappiecrazy]

I was having some luck shooting jigs under pontoon boats tied to floating docks. {Panfish asasin}

[lunker]

I read somewhere the other day about casting a slip cork and jig down the sides and working back real slow. It said put the jig just below the depth of the bottom of the dock. Said it works best when water is a little warmer than now, like spring and early summer then fall. I've never tried it but we have some floating docks that were installed a couple years back and I thought when the time gets right I would try it. Good Luck

[captmikestarrett]

When I cane pole the docks I use the trolling motor to push the float/minnow under the docks. Some of my biggest slabs have been caught that way.

It is fun to watch the float by laying on the deck. I also get a kick out of my customers when I use this method to push there baits under docks.

:D

Capt Mike

[Cane Pole]

Wiskers

Come down one day and I will show you how to doodle sock the docks. It is kinda like what capt Mike said. Fun. Don't use good poles. ha

[bentpole]

One of the best days I've had on Logan Martin lake was a floating dock.
Me & the wife was fishing floats & jigs around a floating dock, casting as close to the side of it & working it back slow,It was late in the spring,

[greatthosu]

Cane Pole, What is this doodle sock that you talk of.

[Cane Pole]

Her is how I do it. There are other methods.

Ain’t done any doodle socking in a few years. Usta do it a lot. It is fun. I do it out of my Jon Boat cause it is low to the water.

I got a old 9 foot BnM pole. Just for this. It usta be 10 foot. It floats.

How to:

1. No reel
2. Tie about 3 foot of line directly to tip of pole. I use jigs.
3. Steer jig with pole between floats on docks or other flating structure.
4. I usually let the pole float in the water. (You can also hold the pole).
5. If the pole bobbles, pull it in. (Using the pole as an strike indicator).
6. I just pick the pole up and had over hand the pole til I get to the fish.

BEWARE. Bass and catfish! They steal the pole from ya. Ha…

It hard to do in high wind or a lot of boat traffic (but doable) .

When the water is up, I lay on my belly on the walkway of my boat dock and doodle sock beneath the fishing platform. My wife thinks I am nuts. She prob right. I catch fish though.

I also doodle sock buck brush. Usually tie just 1 foot of line and jig on the pole.

You can float a pole rigged like this into places you can’t place or cast, especially thick brush.

Just lay the pole in the water and kinda gently push it in the brush.
I have a 4-6 foot cord (trot line cord) tie to handle of the pole when I do this. Just in case.

[SMITTY 58D]

Try the technique Ernest had on his DVD. The one where you put your whole rod in there. Looks goofy but I think I might try it next time.

[greatthosu]

Thanks Cane Pole,We have allot of floating dock out hear in AZ. because the lakes are so deep.