Work docks when brush doesn’t produce

When brush piles aren’t producing, and the bite is really tough, Robert Munn abandons his cane poles for jigging with fly rods under boat docks.

“I use them more like bream poles than fly rods, and my late friend Donnie Baker was a master at this technique,” said Munn as he held a 14-foot fly rod with the jig reeled all the way to the tip, then reached the rod several feet under the dock and below the water’s surface, and slowly stripped line off the reel, allowing the jig to sink. “Sometimes they’re hiding way under the dock and won’t hit a jig beside the pilings. This trick has saved the day on more than one occasion.”