Hi everyone,

I need some advice on techniques to catch bass off of steep rocky cliffs.  There is a spot on a local lake that I fish where a rocky cliff drops straight into the water.  It basically drops from 5ft to 30ft deep once you get 5 feet or so from the shore.  The lake is very large (50+ square miles), relatively clear (typically 3ft to 5ft visibility on average), loaded with spotted bass, and generally gets fished a lot..  Every time I fish this spot my dad, whom fishes shiners off the back of our boat, catches bass after bass so I know they're stacked along this drop off.  Problem is I don't know what type of presentation works well when bass are sitting off of steep drops like this.  Does anyone have any experience fishing spots like this?  We mostly fish this spot in Spring and Summer

I would try to match the shiner if you dad is catching them.  I would go swimbait or lipless. 

Are you parallel casting ? 

Jig or a senko.  Bluff ends you don't need to do anything but pitch and let it drop of the first and second steps into deep water and do it again after that. 

Fish head spin

Blade bait (silver buddy style)

Jigging spoon

Preacher jigs