Having grown up on a river, I learned at an early age the importance of fishing various kinds of edges.

 

 

Unfortunately….I constantly see a lot of lake / reservoir anglers get stuck in a mode of “beating the banks”….working laydowns, stumps and / or weed clumps…then moving on.

 

 

Before you DO move on….consider giving a few casts in the directions shown in the diagrams below.

 

 

Even if there’s only one or 2 laydowns….or just a couple of weed clumps….these are edges that should be tested.

 

 

This works really well with 2 anglers….as each can use different types of lures for this….increasing the odds of finding a pattern that works. AND there's a WIDE variety of lures that you can use for this.

 

 

 

 

 

Life Member David BB Linkmeister US Army '78-'85 West Central Wisconsin

Good Tip Dave. That is really important. I fish a lot of rivers and found out this was true a long time ago. Wish I had seen this when I first started fishing the Potomac as it would have helped me then.
Northeast Bass Fishing For Trophy Bass http://delawaretrophybass.com

Great tip Dave. I like to call the techique youv'e outlined " Robbing The Bank" It is very affective and I have shown all my kids how to do it. It's good to see somebody passing it on to others.

 

(it don't matter if the horse is blind.Just load the cart anyway!... John Madden Hall of Fame Coach) (NAFC LM) (NAHC LM) (NRA) ("Fred"Jefferson,MD)

               Dave great info for alot of people.
                I went out Tuesday and saw 3 different boats doing just that.So I passed that area and went to some docks down river.No luck.Noticed they moved so went back where they were and pulled 5lms small ones.The water is still low,what they didn`t understand that there is three levels of weeds one peaking out another 2ft down and another one 3ft after that.The bottom one was hitting good.They were hitting the top and the shallows on the bank with no luck.
                            Some banks work exstreamly well thou depending on depth.
Old-fart Catfisher

I'm not advocating that folks should abandon the banks 'bro What I AM saying is that for each section of bank that you work....TRY this technique BEFORE you move on to the next section.

 

NUMEROUS tracking studies of freshwater fish show that there are both "home-bodies" and "roamers" of most species...so to ME...that means that there MAY be fish AWAY from shoreline cover....like laydowns.

 

Which make this tactic BASIC in the game plan...in particuilar for bass...quite viable to me 

 

Life Member David BB Linkmeister US Army '78-'85 West Central Wisconsin