Mid-Morning Bass Fishing Success. Docks are the Key! Cedar Lake August, 17th 2008

Tue, Aug 19, 2008

After struggling to find fish the last few times out on the lake in the normal places, I turned to a different strategy yesterday morning. Instead of fishing the usual rockpiles, and submerged weed beds that have been productive all year, we started fishing the shaded side of the numerous docks lining the lake shore. We started fishing around 8:30am throwing spinnerbaits along the east side of the lake since there was not a cloud in the sky and there was still a little shade to be found from the trees on the east. We did that for about 30-40 minutes and only landed 2 fish. I had a nice smallmouth (~2lbs) and Brian got a 2lb largemouth. He was throwing white, and I had a white and yellow tied on.

After minimal success we decided to try the docks on the west side of the lake since we hadn’t fished them in quite some time, and it turned out to be a good move. We landed another 10 fish on senkos from under the docks… The fishing wasn’t easy though since the fish were suspended way under the docks and pontoons boats requiring an accurately skipped bait under the docks. The recent rain made this even more difficult since the water levels were up a foot or so from last week.

Most fish that we landed were decent quality in the 2+ lb range and one monster topping out at around 6lbs.

Here’s a few shots of this chunky hog.

That is one fat bass… Especially for the end of summer!

Hopefully this pattern will hold up until the next time I have a few hours to spend on the lake. It has been cold at night lately so I would imagine the fish won’t stay on the docks for too long. If you are fishing this weekend, give the docks a try and you might very well land yourself a trophy! In case you were wondering, this fish was released unharmed to fight another day.