Is shooting docks a good method year round? What about from now til February? I really enjoy single pole fishing and plan to start fishing Neely and Weiss more because I think they are better dock lakes.
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Is shooting docks a good method year round? What about from now til February? I really enjoy single pole fishing and plan to start fishing Neely and Weiss more because I think they are better dock lakes.
Cowboy 215 take me away
James, Glenn?
I did really well shooting docks in winter on through post spawn.
Richard Gene , is doing it.
Cowboy, do you keep on fishing them straight through the winter?
If I want I can catch fish on docks anytime of the year here. Need to come out some time and well get after them. But yes I have certain docks I hit in the winter some deep some shallow, all depends on the currentQuote:
Originally Posted by FurFlyin
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Thank you very much and I will most definitely take you up on that soon.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cowboy215
Good all year. There's not as many docks in the winter but it can be good. My usual fish partner went yesterday evening kept 47. Attachment 360916
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Thanks for the replies guys, So if I try to find docks on Guntersville to shoot in the winter, what depth water should I be looking in?
Will your live scope read in shallower? I can’t find squat up here with Si I guess because of the wood and the shallower water and grass! I can find em on floating docks on other lakes with it but none of those here! They tell me that most docks up here close to the Chanel are good but I can’t catch squat on these docks much except early spring !:twocents
I can tell you how many fish are under the dock with the LS, but I have to stop, deploy it and look to do that. No drive by scanning. I can't tell anything with SI either, most times. I did find one yesterday with fish under it that I saw on SI but they were out on the edge of the dock.
You can use SI on shallow docks, you have to adjust your range and you probably want see the fish the same. On deep docks you will see the fish in the black. Shallow docks they will show up as shadows. Or at least that's how it's worked for me. I'm no expert on electronics. I've learn how to use them but all the little details are above my pay grad.
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Glenn, can you see them on docks with posts? That's where I struggle and that's all we have up here. Somebody, maybe Rickie posted in the electronics forum to take the HB units to a lower frequency than Mega to cast a "flatter" beam and I've started doing that, but I still just normally see the white dots from the poles. It's entirely possible that I haven't found a dock loaded with crappie too. I'd like to follow somebody that's good at finding them so I could scan docks that they say has them on it, then look at it with my unit to see what it looks like on mine. Next time I find some with my LS on a dock, I'm gonna pull off it and drive by with my SI and see what I see. I wish I had thought about that yesterday when I did find one that was loaded. Only issue with those, they were unfishable. They were tight up under a boat that was sitting on a lift, right at the water level. I shot right beside the lift about 10 times and did catch one, but the ball of fish was about 3 feet to the left of where I could shoot.
After reading and thinking. It Should be easier to "shoot" docks during the winter draw down stage. Ok so more thinking. Since apparently I ain't coordinated enough to shoot maybe I'll set the rod down put the jig in my son's sling shot.... Fire the jig and then grab the rod. "Dock slinging".
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So the two largest fish (2 1/2 +) I've ever caught shooting docks on Guntersville, both came out of 4 FOW (on different docks) in winter! I know, not what you would expect on most lakes, but they were there and I shot a jig in to see what I could find and wham. I've never really been able to find a consistent dock pattern on the Big B.
Furflyin unless there's a lot under a dock they don't show up really well in my experience. On some lakes I just fish the docks. Take Neely Henry for example you may only catch 1 or 2 fish under one dock and 30 under the next. I tend not to use Si on some dock. It is by far more helpful on deep cover (docks an brush) some lakes just don't have many good docks. I would just fish Weiss or Neely Henry when it's slow a guntervill. I live 20mins from Neely Henry and Logan Martin and I fish mostly at wedowee because it has better numbers. Just go where the bite is best.
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