I have fished a boat dock twice this week without getting a bite, the first time while fishing alone and today while fishing with two other guys. Saw an enormous pod of fish (Crappie) on my side scan and confirmed that there were lots of fish under the dock with my Active Target. After fishing today for 15 or 20 minutes without a bite, the other guys started poo pooing and decided that it was bait, that they were carp, etc. etc.. Having seen (and caught) enough Crappie under docks to know how they sit, associate with each other, etc., I was completely confident that they were Crappie and that there were a lot of them, but purely out of curiosity (and to confirm for the other guys that they were in fact Crappie), I pulled out my underwater camera and deployed it under the dock.

Geez Louise, hundreds of them and they all appeared to be about the same size (10-12") and they were all absolutely sedentary, just lying there passing the time. Not only were they completely disinterested in several different size and colors of plastic tails on jigs, but they weren't even really bothered by the camera lens being dropped down through them. It just goes to show that most sport fish are inactive far more often than they're actively feeding and when they're like this, there's little you can do to change it.