I like laydowns, and deep vegetation.

Isolated cover .

Weeds and wood

I don't have a favorite type of cover, but I do like casting to visible targets whether it's a stump, hole in the pads, a turn in the weedline etc. I enjoy surveying the landscape and looking for the fish's hiding spot. That said, I know I miss out to some degree by not focusing on the deeper, less visible cover some days. I'm working on reading electronics, maps etc. and finding some off shore spots.

 I prefer to fish wood.  In an ideal situation I would be fishing submerged trees a mile off of shore.

Rocks aren't typically "cover" but they can used similarly. Boulders come to mind, but generally the immovable bottom is referred to as structure and anything over it is cover.

My favorite cover is fallen trees.

Timber and grass without a doubt

I like the cover that No One Else Knows Is There . . .

 

And it's LOADED.

 

A-Jay

laydowns, grass, and almost impenetrable. 

Grass first and foremost.  Deep or shallow, emergent or submerged, followed by wood.  And I'll include shade into this list as well as sometimes it's the only cover available and can be quickly overlooked by many.

I like fishing rock cover. What about you guys?

Rock is structure where I fish. Cover is something that naturally grows or man made things that float.

We have very few docks except at marinas, good cover. Trees, brush, any wood, weed beds, etc are cover that I fish.

Tom

My favorite cover to fish is cover that holds bass...don't care what it's made of.

Love fishing laydowns and weedlines.

 

This.

I fish grass a lot..  laydowns and stumps, cattails. Found a few old rock walls at in some big ponds but I consider that structure.

What do you guys consider rip rap ?  

undercover!

Wood!

I dont care if its a stump, log, tree, brush pile, beaver hut, a dock or even a wooden boat!

I cant resist it lol

Grass, and docks/boat hoists with posts. With wood ranking right up there. I hate pads, but love matted milfoil. That said, I'll never bypass a stretch of pads. My least favorite is floating docks/swim platforms. Our lakes are loaded with them, but I can count on one hand the number of decent bass I have caught off them. Part of the problem is they are usually out in no-mans land to get away from the grass, and usually only hold small schooling suspending fish. They are panfish magnets though, so you would figure decent bass would probably not be too far, but I probably just suck at fishing them, and move on pretty quick.

What Kind Of Cover?

 

Heaviest available

 

Roger

Love fishing laydowns and weedlines.

It's almost time, Mr. DyerBassMan....

 

I just spooled up my reels this weekend. Might wet a line on Saturday if it's not too windy.

 

Have you been out yet?

 

Oh... and Laydowns are my #1 followed by Pads/scum. I'm a sucker for the topwater bite.

Rock is structure where I fish. Cover is something that naturally grows or man made things that float.

We have very few docks except at marinas, good cover. Trees, brush, any wood, weed beds, etc are cover that I fish.

Tom

 

I would agree that bedrock and ledgerock are 'structure', but not rocks and stones that can be moved.

Chunk rock, rubble and boulders are typically classified as 'rocky cover',

as distinguished from 'woody cover' and 'weedy cover'.

 

Roger

Dollar weeds, water lettuce, lily pads, and hyacinths.

Skipping under overhanging bushes and trees.

Lily pads! Love dragging a frog over them!

  Lilly pad beds or bottle brush weed beds