What are your opinions on the best baits to use for docks in clear water where you can see bass sitting under it?

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Senko, weightless finesse worm or weightless fluke usually do the trick for me.

Thanks guys I'll have to try them out

weightless worm of choice, LC Pointer - female perch, or NorthStar finesse jig.

In those conditions, if you see them they also see you. It's more important that you skip from a longer distance than the bait your tossing. That being said; under those conditions it's dang hard to beat a white or pearl super fluke skipped in weightless on a 5/0 wide gap.

In NY, by law, you must skip senkos..................or so it seems, because thats all anyone I know uses LOL. I have bucked the all senko all the time mob the last couple years and found quite a few things that are effective when senkos are not. Go to any tournament around here, there will be an endless parade of guys going around the lake(s) in circles skipping senkos under docks, and when it's not what's on that day, they keep doing it, but with a different color senko LMAO. Don't worry we also have there counterparts covering the other fishable water.............the guys who pitch a jig into weedholes 24/7, who also curse the senko fisherman, thinking they are somehow better because they know how to plop a hunk of lead into a hole......................wow, did that go way off topic, haha.

Haha thats funny right there. Thanks for all the answers guys.

My first skipping bait would be the weightless senko, as i can skip it furthest and most accurate. From there, i go to a weightless fluke. I'm also getting better at skipping a jig, which can be a deadly dock bait. You may also want to consider a fat ika or other beaver rigged backwards as it will glide away from you, further under the dock.

Weightless super fluke or weightless senko are a couple of my favorites for docks.

On one of my home lakes, a shallow crank killed the dock fish. We didn't really combat crank either. The most we put the bait through was occasionally clipping a post.

We used medium powered rods, and 8-10lb test.

Weightless flukes, floating worms, Trick Worms, or grubs generally work pretty well. The Fat Ika seems like it ought to work, but I've never had any luck with them...or Senkos for that matter.

what kind of rods makes a good bait cast rod.i want one just for skipping.i have no ideal what i need,i would like to know what rod to buy.THANKS

Try using a three-eyed shrimp. Haha, let's see how many of yall know what a 3-eyed shrimp is.

You mean a tadpole????

You guys are lucky, the docks around here are free floating docks, so you can't skip under them. I did make a big fool of myself when I went to Lake Fork I can't count how many times I whacked the dock or the posts. My guide found it quite funny