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Crappies love docks -- especially during fall and winter. But how do you reach them when they're tucked way up underneath? You have to "shoot" the dock, which involves skipping a small, soft-plastic jig deep underneath the dock. But floating docks present a special challenge. This multi-part video series covers all aspects of dock-shooting.

This blog installment comes from Fishhound friend and outdoor writer Nathan Shore.

From late summer though fall, live-bait fishing catches walleyes every day in lakes, rivers and reservoirs. Other methods may catch more, but don't count on it. Especially when that weight sliding on your main line is perfectly in tune with depth, wind, bait type and size.

A leader separates a struggling live bait from that weight, giving it room to swim, squirm and attract fish. Simple. Beautiful. Deadly. But the key is putting that living minnow, leech or crawler on a target below the boat. Like a bombardier, rigging experts know how to triangulate their targets and allow for current, velocity and depth.

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Editor's note: This blog installment comes from Fishhound pro staffer Bob Maindelle.

Try this. Place your left hand down on the table with your fingers spread apart. Then, while keeping your fingertips touching the table, raise the back of your hand and your wrist up off the table with the back of your hand parallel to the table top.

Now, think of the back of your hand as the shore. Your five fingers are like points – finger-like extensions that go down into the water and touch the flat, deep bottom (basin) of the lake.

Here's the mistake that most anglers make: They think a point is that short arrowhead-like piece of bank where the land pokes out into the water. In other words, that small area where the back of your...

Editor's note: This blog installment comes from Fishhound pro staffer Bob Maindelle.

If you're a diehard white-bass angler who pursues this great line-sided temperate bass throughout the year, then you no doubt share the same frustrations I do: How little attention this great species gets in comparison to black bass, crappie or even catfish.

It's as if no one wants to take that first step into the white-bass world and risk article space in their magazine, shelf space in their store or production capacity in their factories in order to cater to white-bass specialists.

Fishhound has given us a platform to launch from, starting right here and right now. It's up to us to demonstrate our interest in this species and segment...