Marina's?

[Max]

I have a question that may have been answered in an earlier post. If so, my apologies.....but there is a lot of history on this forum to search through.

Being new to the area, I have been spending a lot of time exploring the lake trying to target areas that may be productive as the water cools off.

There is a lot of discussion here regarding the lack of structure in Allatoona.

However, I have never seen a lake with so many marinas in such a short distance.  Not to mention, large marinas with large boats.  This makes me think the massive docks could double as structure.

Do any of you guys target those docks?

If so....any success there? Do the owners/operators of the marinas frown on fishing inside their breaker walls?

Thanks in advance for the input!!

[rhinobait]

Well here is my two cents (for now), I honestly do not even want to fight or argue with anyone, so, I steer clear. I do not know the real ins and outs though.

[pheonix819]

Marinas are a great place to fish, respect there property and be nice even if there jerks and you'll be fine. I actually talk to most of them now with out any issues. There will be a jerk ever now and then but move on and keep fishing. My biggest stringer on TOONA came out of a marina in a matter of minutes. When I mean big around 13lbs. The fish don't move as much as you think, change how your going about it and you'll be fine. Stay in 15-25 feet of water and you'll stay consistent.

[Bob Smith (Porko)]

there are guys on Toona who fish marinas almost exclusively. I've heard tell,,,,,, that there are some pretty special brush-piles sunk under some of them, and the guys who might have put them there are very protective of them. I would suggest that you look for the humps, ridges and long points that run underneath those docks. If you have side imaging you can find some pretty darned interesting stuff under them and sometimes land on the mother lode!

[pheonix819]

Bob once the brush is dropped its free game. I don't go look for where people fish but I will put in my time with the graph. When I fished there several years ago someone put some brush where I fished. Nothing was said nor did I stop fishing that spot because some one dropped something on it. People are trying to get territorial on a lake that's open for every one. That was the main reason I went to the BFL and the hopes of moving up. I try to get away from the crowd but TOONA can fish small. If you can read a map you will be fishing near some one anyway.

[Bob Smith (Porko)]

Sept 1, 2016 23:12:11 GMT -1 pheonix819 said:

Bob once the brush is dropped its free game. I don't go look for where people fish but I will put in my time with the graph. When I fished there several years ago someone put some brush where I fished. Nothing was said nor did I stop fishing that spot because some one dropped something on it. People are trying to get territorial on a lake that's open for every one. That was the main reason I went to the BFL and the hopes of moving up. I try to get away from the crowd but TOONA can fish small. If you can read a map you will be fishing near some one anyway.

I hear ya and I agree with ya! I know several folks who sink them and seen a couple of verbal disputes between folks on that subject. I have let each of them know that I am not going to follow a guy around trying to find all of his brushpiles, but if I stumble onto a goldmine of brushpile and catch fish on it, you can bet I'll be back again, and you bet that I am not moving off of it regardless of what anyone says. No threat, just the way it is on public water.

[swin]

Hey Bob you can fish mine they just have 12 inchers on them anyway

[Bob Smith (Porko)]

Sept 2, 2016 1:26:25 GMT -1 swin said:

Hey Bob you can fish mine they just have 12 inchers on them anyway

Must be yours en then, LOL Wayne that seems like all I can find. Honestly I don't even look for brush-piles and I don't spend much time in marinas. The older I've gotten the simpler my fishing techniques have gotten. I fish shakey head 75% of the time on rocky points and corners during the summer. Most other seasons I fish jigs and shakey heads, mix it up with some C-rigs and spinner baits depending on the time of year. Not big on crankbaits, I will throw them occasionally, but don't care the treble hooks (like Quigley and his six shooters, "didn't say I don't know how to use them, just don't have much use for them"

[pheonix819]

I agree with you bob, I do better on rocks most of the time.