Favorite Type Of Cover To Fish 2024
conorsixtakc reply :
Here in Kansas the eastern red cedars grow like weeds, are tough as nails, and usually 5-9' tall making them an ideal candidate to sink for brush piles. I've never sunk artificial cover before but I know there are some firm believers in that as well. What are your guys' favorite types of cover (not structure) to fish?
A-Jay reply :
Deep cover.
Not visible, not shoreline, stuff that's challenging to discern even with the best of electronics.
The type that I Never sit on if there are other anglers around but always camp out on at night.
A-Jay
FishinCop646 reply :
Deep wood is my go to. It seems to always produce for me!
Wbeadlescomb reply :
I've always liked lay downs around grass.
WIGuide reply :
Whatever is holding fish the best on that day!
Scott F reply :
Old docks with wood or rocks as the support.
Bluebasser86 reply :
Either docks with support poles that go to the bottom, or rocks. Rocks are one of those types of cover that ALWAYS hold fish.
Siebert Outdoors reply :
My favorite is finding a rocky bottom with laydowns in it. Its almost given fish catcher.
conorsixtakc reply :
On 3/5/2014 at 11:18 PM, Bluebasser86 said:Either docks with support poles that go to the bottom, or rocks. Rocks are one of those types of cover that ALWAYS hold fish.
On 3/5/2014 at 11:20 PM, Siebert Outdoors said:My favorite is finding a rocky bottom with laydowns in it. Its almost given fish catcher.
x2. Spot on.
tholmes reply :
On 3/5/2014 at 11:18 PM, Bluebasser86 said:Either docks with support poles that go to the bottom, or rocks. Rocks are one of those types of cover that ALWAYS hold fish.
On 3/5/2014 at 11:20 PM, Siebert Outdoors said:My favorite is finding a rocky bottom with laydowns in it. Its almost given fish catcher.
X3^. I love bouncing a crankbait along rocks for both largemouth and smallmouth. It's a killer tactic.
Tom
RoLo reply :
Hydrilla and Milfoil are my favorite types of cover.
Particularly where they merge with emergent veggies like bulrushes, waterlilies or maidencane (the more the merrier).
Roger
reb67 reply :
I have my best luck in the grass lines but I am still a rookie
Catt reply :
On 3/5/2014 at 10:43 PM, A-Jay said:Deep cover.
Not visible, not shoreline, stuff that's challenging to discern even with the best of electronics.
The type that I Never sit on if there are other anglers around but always camp out on at night.
A-Jay
You following me around? 
mjseverson24 reply :
I have two, types that I love to fish, heavy matted vegitation typically milfoil, and deep weeds.
Mitch
macmichael reply :
grass and rip rap for me.
papajoe222 reply :
Although there are few lakes around here that have it, I love fishing rip-rap. I caught my first bass on a Creme worm off a stretch of rip-rap leading to a bridge that I fished for crappie from. I didn't do much crappie fishing after that, I'd just walk up and down that causeway casting and catching bass.
Bassguytom reply :
I love to throw a jig into beaver huts. Big producer of big fish for me.
ww2farmer reply :
Grass, docks, and lay downs..... In no particular order.
grizzgreen18 reply :
wood and more wood then rocks and grass
Bankbeater reply :
Grass, lilypads, and laydowns. Any combination of those three.
Raul reply :
Rocks !
SirSnookalot reply :
Don't care as long as it's not thick vegetation, lily pads and muck. I dislike having a tug of war with plants or pulling up a 2# fish with 12# of salad or slime attached to it. A lily pad doesn't take out drag.
Raul reply :
On 3/7/2014 at 4:01 AM, SirSnookalot said:Don't care as long as it's not thick vegetation, lily pads and muck. I dislike having a tug of war with plants or pulling up a 2# fish with 12# of salad or slime attached to it. A lily pad doesn't take out drag.
My least enjoyable catch was my PB bass, 13.86 lbs surrounded by 40 pounds of elodea.
aharris reply :
any kind of grass or lily pads
Shane J reply :
Deep rocks.
Jar11591 reply :
Big rock piles that come up right in the middle of the lake. Nothing better for smallies than a big rock-pile island.
ColdSVT reply :
Wood and rocks mostly but i really really like sharp drop offs with wood and rocks lol
blongfishing reply :
I like to fish a 4' with 5' weeds. Throw a crank bait parallel or a football head jig!
Tiller reply :
Floating bog. Pitch a bait right on the edge and get bit.
Joe
Bassintheweeds reply :
All of it.
Mainebass1984 reply :
The thickest nastiest stuff I can find, weeds or wood, and isolated off shore structure.
gallowaypt reply :
I'd probably have to say weeds. Although,my most productive spot to date is a man made rock wall in an almost featureless pond.
FrogFreak reply :
Lilly pads for sure! If there's some rock or wood around, then even better. I do love those hidden rock piles. I think I'm going to start bringing one rock out on every trip and starting my own pile.
fishforlife14 reply :
Lots of lilly pads, and heavy cover
FrankW reply :
Has a lot to do with where you fish.
Florida, you can't beat Hydrilla. It is my favorite of any cover I have fished.
Washington State, Wood.
Arizona, Rocks and Cactus.
Nevada, Rocks and Cactus.
California, Wood and Lilly Pads.
Texas, Wood and laydowns.
Mississippi/Tennessee, Rocks
Frank
Alonerankin2 reply :
Hard to find now but... Have nailed some real good fish off duck blinds ... Bridge/riprap... My # 1 is Hydrilla blankets followed by lily pads...
fishva reply :
Any overhanging trees. I like the challenge of the cast, and working around the underwater roots.
whitwolf reply :
On 3/8/2014 at 1:27 AM, Mainebass1984 said:The thickest nastiest stuff I can find, weeds or wood, and isolated off shore structure.
+1
iabass8 reply :
On 3/5/2014 at 11:20 PM, Siebert Outdoors said:My favorite is finding a rocky bottom with laydowns in it. Its almost given fish catcher.
x2
anything with rock and wood to throw a jig in
Maxximus Redneckus reply :
Lone stump 5 ft of water,,stained any temp
Grizzn N Bassin reply :
Depends for me some days i love going to a few local lakes that has the thickest pads iv'e ever fished. I mean peep hole openings in between pads. Love frogging them all the day during the summer.
Other days i feel like fishing docks and lay downs so I'll go to my local lake.
Or ill go to my honey holes which has a variety of cover to fish.
Lastley i know its not cover but my uncle's 20 acre pond has a lot,of big bass like like to suspending off some kind of hand built rock wall. Ill put some live shinnners. And tie a ballon about 3 feet up . The shinnner flops on the surface and tries to swim down all frantically. I really like doing that early on the am or mid day .
BuckMaxx reply :
Jig and craw on the rip rap
Master Bait'r reply :
Pads and falldown. Every time!
Fish Murderer 71 reply :
Unfortunately, the water authority has killed off most of the vegetation at several of the lakes (impoundments) around here, so, most of the cover has to be docks or brush that has been sunk. I have trolled most of the structures and way-pointed the meager natural brush piles I find. Although I do have a couple lakes that have lots of vegetation but its a long drive to those.
JeziHogg reply :
For smallmouth I like 5-15 foot of water, with bigger rocks to smash crankbaits off of.
For Largemouth I like 5-10 foot of water with vegetation that grows halfway up the depth I'm fishing, using a jig just light enough not to crash through and work it off the top of the vegetation.
Alpha Male reply :
I like some sparse rushes with laydowns near ledges or heavy weeds and lilypads
Dwight Hottle reply :
On 3/7/2014 at 3:32 AM, Raul said:Rocks !
X2
BassThumb reply :
The generic answer would be, "I'll fish whatever type of cover is producing quality fish at the moment." That pretty hard to argue with, honestly. 75% of the time, that's how I roll.
However, I prefer close-quarter fishing in and around docks and slop if given the choice. Those are my favorites. Frogging and jigging. There's no other thrill like that, not in the bass fishing world at least.
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