doCK talk
that are best ignored
By Andy Cuccia
White and Chartruese blade bite
is on, excellent, I’m tossing that
pink one instead!
F
or centuries, we the anglers of fish, have taken to
heart and followed the gospel of dock talk lore.
For many, the written and spoken words of
others, tend to guide the way we always fish for bass. For those, who are not fortunate to spend
a lot of time on the water, the dock talk is a short cut
to enhance the learning curve. Yet in the end, there
is no better source to which we can trim down that
learning curve, than time on the water. My time on
the water, has taught me, many of the “rules and
tactics” we should be using as bass fishermen,
that have been pounded into our heads forever,
are in fact just myths and i have been far more
successful in doing the opposite or something
slightly different.
There are always Fish Shallow. Yeah, if it was spring time all year long. How many of you fish in that shallow box, especially here on the delta, and go hours, if not days without getting bit there? i could rest my case on this alone. Bass go shallow for two reasons, to spawn or to aggressively feed. less than 30% of the bass population in a given lake, pond or river system, are up spawning at any one time. less than 10% of the bass population is in the shallow, aggressive feeding mode at any one time. How lucky are you, to stumble into this situation, every day?
Most largemouth bass, reside in 6-25 feet year round. Florida strained bass, which most of our lakes here in California
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