Dock Fishing

[rgfixit]

How many of you  are dock fishing addicts like me?

I love the small waters in the spring  for bluegills, perch, sunnies, crappies etc.

Where are some of your favorite spots?
RG

[SuperX2]

I fish docks for Huge Rock Bass in the spring in Sodus Bay. We get alot over the 1lb mark. I also fish docks when the time is right in the early summer for Bass.

[roverowner]

I like dock fishing with my kids.  They're 3, 5, and 6 and don't really have the casting think down yet.  I take 'em to a dock and let them practice catching gills.  They love it.  When I'm alone I head out to the weeds and structure.  When I get hung up in that stuff I don't want my kids around for what they might hear coming out of my mouth!

[Fishingking]

Dock fishing is alot of fun when fishing panfish ,  even for bullheads and bass at night

[rgfixit]

Super-x,
Apple blossom time = Rock bass time!
I also fish Sodus for the Rockies in spring...tons of fun with a bunch of big sunnies and bass thrown in to boot.

RG

[wny angler]

why would anyone want to fish for rockbass when you could be crappie fishing ?

you don't eat e,m -do you ?        yuk

[SuperX2]

Yuk???  I have had have great dinners made from Rock Bass.  Why would they be any different than a crappie? They fight as good or better and taste just as nice.

[rgfixit]

WNY,
That pic looks like Springville to me! Nice steelie.

Rockies in the spring  are good tasting fish.  Crappies are fine as well...so are sunnies, bluegills, bullhead, catfish, trout etc...etc!

I fish for everything! Variety is the spice of life
RG

[wny angler]

WNY,
That pic looks like Springville to me! Nice steelie.

Rockies in the spring  are good tasting fish.  Crappies are fine as well...so are sunnies, bluegills, bullhead, catfish, trout etc...etc!

I fish for everything! Variety is the spice of life
RG

   the pic's from zoar valley maybe 10 miles downstream of springville--same creek---good guess

i tried frying up a rockie years ago-caught it in the summer,  seemed a bit strong tasting

maybe there better eating in the spring like bullhead

[rgfixit]

Wny, Been there many times. We've probably seen each other.
I have close friends in Strykersville and have spent many great days fishing trout all over  that area.

Used to spend 3-4 weeks out there  in the early spring  making syrup and fishing.

RG

[can_of_worms]

I used to enjoy night dock fishing as a kid on Honeoye, it seemed that alot of people had overhead lights at the end of the docks and it was a magnet for small prey for the big boys. I still like dock fishing there but I do most of it in the daylight now, skip tubes or zulus under them.

[BuckShotJon]

wny_angler....if you saw the size of the rockbass in Sodus you would fish for them. They take drag out! They can get plus 15 inches easily over there.

Jon

[wny angler]

thems some big rockies-never seen one over 10 inches

got to be a lot of fun catchin on an ultra lite

[Bronzeback]

I can attest to the big rockies in Sodus Buckshotjon.  I thought I had caught some big rockies before I went up there, I learned quick. Have caught many in 14"-15" just canoeing and casting in a small cove.

Bronzeback
 

[SuperX2]

This time of the year I don't mind catching them, but when the Bass bite is on the Rockies can be a real pain in the A**.  They will eat a 6" plastic worm like nothing.