Big rock piles that come up right in the middle of the lake. Nothing better for smallies than a big rock-pile island.

Wood and rocks mostly but i really really like sharp drop offs with wood and rocks lol

I like to fish a 4' with 5' weeds. Throw a crank bait parallel or a football head jig!

Floating bog. Pitch a bait right on the edge and get bit.

Joe

All of it.

The thickest nastiest stuff I can find, weeds or wood, and isolated off shore structure.

I'd probably have to say weeds. Although,my most productive spot to date is a man made rock wall in an almost featureless pond.

Lilly pads for sure! If there's some rock or wood around, then even better. I do love those hidden rock piles. I think I'm going to start bringing one rock out on every trip and starting my own pile.

Lots of lilly pads, and heavy cover

Has a lot to do with where you fish.

Florida, you can't beat Hydrilla. It is my favorite of any cover I have fished.

Washington State, Wood.

Arizona, Rocks and Cactus.

Nevada, Rocks and Cactus.

California, Wood and Lilly Pads.

Texas, Wood and laydowns.

Mississippi/Tennessee, Rocks

Frank

Hard to find now but... Have nailed some real good fish off duck blinds ... Bridge/riprap... My # 1 is Hydrilla blankets followed by lily pads...

Any overhanging trees. I like the challenge of the cast, and working around the underwater roots.

The thickest nastiest stuff I can find, weeds or wood, and isolated off shore structure.

 

 

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My favorite is finding a rocky bottom with laydowns in it.  Its almost given fish catcher.

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anything with rock and wood to throw a jig in

Lone stump 5 ft of water,,stained any temp

Depends for me some days i love going to a few local lakes that has the thickest pads iv'e ever fished. I mean peep hole openings in between pads. Love frogging them all the day during the summer.

Other days i feel like fishing docks and lay downs so I'll go to my local lake.

Or ill go to my honey holes which has a variety of cover to fish.

Lastley i know its not cover but my uncle's 20 acre pond has a lot,of big bass like like to suspending off some kind of hand built rock wall. Ill put some live shinnners. And tie a ballon about 3 feet up . The shinnner flops on the surface and tries to swim down all frantically. I really like doing that early on the am or mid day .

Jig and craw on the rip rap

Pads and falldown.  Every time!  

Unfortunately, the water authority has killed off most of the vegetation at several of the lakes (impoundments) around here, so, most of the cover has to be  docks or brush that has been sunk.  I have trolled most of the structures and way-pointed the meager natural brush piles I find.  Although I do have a couple lakes that have lots of vegetation but its a long drive to those.

For smallmouth I like 5-15 foot of water, with bigger rocks to smash crankbaits off of.

For Largemouth I like 5-10 foot of water with vegetation that grows halfway up the depth I'm fishing, using a jig just light enough not to crash through and work it off the top of the vegetation.

I like some sparse rushes with laydowns near ledges or heavy weeds and lilypads

Rocks !

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The generic answer would be, "I'll fish whatever type of cover is producing quality fish at the moment." That pretty hard to argue with, honestly. 75% of the time, that's how I roll.

 

However, I prefer close-quarter fishing in and around docks and slop if given the choice. Those are my favorites. Frogging and jigging. There's no other thrill like that, not in the bass fishing world at least.