The cover you cannot pass by

[scaleface]

What is your favorite cover to fish ?

 

   I have to say culverts . Big square concrete ones or round tubes . They are usually good for a bass ,often several and big ones to boot. I would have to give  honorable mention to beaver houses . They usually have a bass or three on them too .

[A-Jay]

A deep Isolated Wood field, at the bottom of a drop-off, in 15 - 20 feet.

#thejuice

A-Jay

 

[MN Fisher]

Small lily-pad patches...not the huge spreads some areas get, but the 50-60 square foot isolated ones. Some of my best bass have come out of those.

[Bird]

Submerged timber, standing timber, overhanging timber on sunny days. 

[Mike L]

The most nasty, heavy, isolated area of matted cover on a hot sunny day I could find. 
 

 

 

 

Mike

[billmac]

Fallen trees, lily pads, large rocks.  Beaver huts.

[TnRiver46]

Culverts are also my favorite. A single log (whole tree) out off the bank in deep water is usually good too , but they don't stay put long. Bluff walls on the main channel has to be up there as well 

[Scott F]

Rock piles. Isolated, especially in an area that isn’t all rock. One of the lakes I fish has a few man made rock piles that at one time were the bases for docks that no longer exist. There are ALWAYS fish on those rocks that few people ever fish. 

[KCFinesse]

Bluff points- especially with pole timber!

[WRB]

Culverts, rock piles, ledges, bluff walls are structure in my book. Cover is aquatic plants, trees, docks etc. If cover has a bait source I give it a look depending on the depth and structure the bass are located around.

Tom

 

[Mobasser]

I like to cast to larger blow down trees where the tops lay over deeper water.

[Deleted account]

Wood, followed by pads near a reed line, followed by a grass line, followed by wherever the fish are at, wait, reverse that...

[throttleplate]

Culverts are awesome, here is my favorite most productive lake for bass, crappie, pike. It is 2 different lakes where the one on the right has houses the lake on the left has only 3 and no boat ramp.

 

Depending on which way the wind is blowing determines which side i fish. The fish last night were all hanging around the culvert  in a V formation looking right into the incoming water waiting as the wind current was pushing the left lake into the right.

 

[Jaderose]

1 hour ago, Mike L said:

The most nasty, heavy, isolated area of matted cover on a hot sunny day I could find. 
 

 

 

 

Mike

This.  FROG TIME!

[Bankbeater]

Weed mats floating on the surface.  Water willows growing along the bank, or on top of shallow humps.  Lilypads if they are not too thick.

[FryDog62]

I don’t think there’s a more beautiful site than a pontoon parked next to a dock in 3-5 fow and the motor trimmed all the way up... You have an expanse of 5 feet between the two pontoons to skip the weightless plastic of your choice way back in. Let it sink slowly... count 1, 2, 3 and set the hook!!

[softwateronly]

All I have is weeds and depth, I look for the deepest weeds that grow vertical next to weeds that grow more horizontal.  I'd love to find a legal way to add rock piles...

 

scott

[J._Bricker]

3 hours ago, Mike L said:

The most nasty, heavy, isolated area of matted cover on a hot sunny day I could find. 

Tules, or as @Mike L perfectly described above.

[Adam83]

Grass lines. Preferably with a rocky bottom. 

[Alex from GA]

Dock poles.

[Way north bass guy]

It really depends on the lake I’m on. Some lakes it’s pads, others it’s docks with boats tied along side ( especially pontoons like @FryDog62 mentioned). I have to say though, that I’m a sucker for a big, single laydown that hangs out over varying depths. I’ve lost count of the number of good bass, and huge pike in the spring and fall that I’ve caught off these over the years. 

[E-rude dude]

Hot summer blue sky day, I’m skipping jigs under docks

[SC53]

Where 2 or 3 different types meet.

Reeds to pads, pencil grass to hydrilla, hydrilla to peppergrass. You get the idea. 

[12poundbass]

Cant get any better than a frog bite in pads or the thick nasty slop. 

[Catt]

All of it! ?