Explain “Guts” of Spawning Pockets

[PotatoLake]

I’ve heard countless times to look for bass in the guts of pockets? What exactly does this mean? I’m assuming down the middle of a pocket? But can someone add a little nuance to this?

[Bluebasser86]

I've always heard "guts" and "pockets" referred to as the same thing. Basically just another slang term for a cove or a cut. 

[Sir Shamsalot]

Unfortunately, there's no universal language to fishing. It's like coke, soda, pop, and more. All the same thing but called something else in different parts of the country. I think you're on the right track though.

[TnRiver46]

Never heard gut before in reference to land or water, that’s interesting 

[A-Jay]

So funny how bassheads be just making up terms.

At this point, we can pretty much call any type of spot or area just about anything we want.

The wierder it sounds the more technical we feel.

Here's a few of my newest favorites:

A slimp, the creek pipe, the spool of a point, the cove depot, a shallow flat back, the hollow hump, the edge of the spurge, and finally the frame of that hole.

What are we doing ? 

A-Jay 

[frogflogger]

We called it nook and cranny fishing.

[PotatoLake]

Yeah I think its Midwest, or even Missouri / Arkansas Ozarks terminology. @Bluebasser86 I think you may be right that guts and pockets may be the same thing. 

[RDB]

I think of a gut as something like a ditch, drain, etc.

[DitchPanda]

10 minutes ago, RDB said:

I think of a gut as something like a ditch, drain, etc.

This is what I think of. Lets say your in a shallow cove or pocket to me the gut is the deep part...usually an old drain or creek run in.

[RDB]

I think of a gut as something like a ditch, drain, etc.

 

Edit:

Here is an article from MLF which references guts in the first paragraph.

 

https://majorleaguefishing.com/series/2018-02-19-top-10-patterns-from-sam-rayburn/

[Deleted account]

"The tertiary point adjacent to the first break past the secondary hump on the first arm"...

[Catt]

16 minutes ago, RDB said:

I think of a gut as something like a ditch, drain, etc.

 

Edit:

Here is an article from MLF which references guts in the first paragraph.

 

https://majorleaguefishing.com/series/2018-02-19-top-10-patterns-from-sam-rayburn/

 

Did you notice they mentioned "gut" one time but continued mentioning "drain".

 

I fish Toledo Bend & Rayburn, no one around here calls it a "gut". They do however call it a "drain" or washout. 

 

A drain & washout are the same thing, rain draining down a hillside causes a washout. After the flooding of the reservoir part of the drain/washout is underwater.

 

[RDB]

12 minutes ago, Catt said:

 

Did you notice they mentioned "gut" one time but continued mentioning "drain".

 

I fish Toledo Bend & Rayburn, no one around here calls it a "gut". They do however call it a "drain" or washout. 

 

A drain & washout are the same thing, rain draining down a hillside causes a washout. After the flooding of the reservoir part of the drain/washout is underwater.

 

I agree...I don’t hear it referred to as guts nearly as often in bass fishing.  I do hear the term used all the time by saltwater bay and wade fishermen, at least in Texas.  You will hear people say wade out to the first gut or fish the guts in the bay.  It’s funny that you rarely hear gut used in bass fishing and you rarely hear ditches in saltwater fishing.