This weekend I will be fishing a lake with a lot of docks.I rarely fish these kinds of lakes,I mostly fish the small lakes in the National Forest which have no docks.I have no skipping skills and would appreciate any advice on technique and presentation.Also would like to know what you feel is the easiest bait to skip.

Thanks,

Rick

I can't skip with a baitcaster, I always use my spinning reel.  I have a 6.5 med-heavy Calico Jack Hurricane rod that seems to do OK skipping for me.  I try to keep the rod tip low with no extra line between the tip and the bait, and release my cast as my rod is parallel with the dock or platform I am skipping under.  It takes a little while to get it right.  You will ruin a soft plastic pretty quickly, and probably dull a few hooks banging up against pilings and the bottom of the dock... I wouldn't try skipping expensive yamamoto lures, they tear up very quickly.

I skip tubes and spidergrubs most often, but also throw stike king zeros, craws, zoom trickworms, zoom finesse worms, and a few others.  The sweet beaver looks like it will skip real well, but I can't buy a bite on a beaver for some reason, so I haven't tried skipping them.  I have also skipped a johnson spoon far under some docks, it skips like a bullet when you hit the water right.  My buddy skips those storm bluegill swimbaits with quite a lot of accuracy, and he does OK with them.

Medium/Fast spinning rod. The more parallel with the water your rod is, the more likely your bait will skip. Tip low...

Try skipping a trick stick or tube for the easiest baits. They will skip just like the rocks you threw when you were a little kid.

Can you skip a bait with a 1/8oz weight?

If you peg the weight so it won't slide up the line an 1/8oz weight should work.

Try the original "Gitzit" with one of their 1/16oz jigheads.  You can skip those things a long ways up under docks with spinning tackle.