Calling all dock shooters.

[CrappieDreamer]

I’m jealous of you guys that can shoot docks on your home lake. The only docks I have available are the floating type and no way to get under them except the small spaces between the floats.

Oh well, someday...


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[DockShootinJack]

I’m jealous of you guys that can shoot docks on your home lake. The only docks I have available are the floating type and no way to get under them except the small spaces between the floats.

Oh well, someday...


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Those hold fish too. Some days those floaters hold the best fish

[T-roy 120]

Yeah floating dock are some of my favorite cause they are harder to fish, many people don't mess with them.

[FurFlyin]

I've tried a bunch of rods to shoot docks and I don't even fish that way more than once a month. My favorite rod by a long shot is my 6' G Loomis E6X 721S SJR. It's a pretty stiff action rod. It doesn't deflect at all if you whip it back and forth. I don't like a rod that's "whippy" on the tip for dock shooting. You spoke about the accuracy of the shot, with the rods you've used. I can put the jig exactly where I want it through the tiniest hole with this rod. Not so with others.

I'm not great at catching them while dock shooting yet, but I am gonna get there. It's not the shooting that hampers me, it's the having time to find docks with fish on them on this grass covered lake I fish.

I think I'd like a Denali Pryme 6' dock rod. I bought a 5' dock rod on closeout last winter and tried it for the first time last week. It's got a similar action to the G Loomis but it's too short for my tastes. The action is a little on the heavy side, compared to the G Loomis but I think it's workable.

One of my new favorite baits are Crappie Magnets. I was up 7-0 on my fishing buddy Saturday before he put one on.

[CrappieDreamer]

So are you guys normally “shooting” by pulling back the bait to load up the tip and then release, or simply “skipping” the bait by casting side arm?


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[SuperDave336]

When I do it I shoot it like a slingshot. Pull back by bait and then fling it somewhere.....lol.

[CrappiePappy]

So are you guys normally “shooting” by pulling back the bait to load up the tip and then release, or simply “skipping” the bait by casting side arm?


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"Shooting" for me !! I never really got the hang of sidearm casting (with any accuracy), plus I started dock shooting with a 5' rod ... so it would have been hard to do that & maintain boat position for my partner. Besides, I generally don't shoot docks at the lakes I fish here in KY, as most of them don't have private docks (stationary or floating). Most of my dock shooting has been done in Tenn & Ala. and I haven't been making many of those trips in the last several years.

[Grainraiser]

So are you guys normally “shooting” by pulling back the bait to load up the tip and then release, or simply “skipping” the bait by casting side arm?


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I shoot with a spinning reel and sidearm with a spincaster. I tried using the sidearm method with a spinning reel and you really have to be good to be accurate. It's fairly easy with a spincaster.

[DockShootinJack]

Pull back and slingshot under the dock also.

[T-roy 120]

I do both. A stiffer rod is better for shooting, a softer rod is better for casting and skipping. I can shoot accurately with a stiff rod but not skip, I can skip very accurately with a soft tipped rod but it has to be a Xtra fast action or it doesn't shoot well for me. I could do both with my old rod thus this thread. I'm mainly looking for a rod.