I never, NEVER fish docks.. I always skip them and fish the bank, laydowns, bushes over hanging the water... AND I'm more of a river angler..but I have a 2 championships coming up and both lakes, Lake Oconee and lake Sinclair, are known to be "dock lakes"... so I've been out there skipping wacky worms under the docks that I can get one up under, and am pleasantly surprised at what I've found under them..!! (Brian Larimer, that's a Bassmooch worm that I won at our lake Russell championship this past March !!)