Explain this one if you know please?

Don't know if this is correct or not, but I was told it involved a LONG cane pole with a short length of line and a topwater lure. The purpose of the rig was to be paddled along the bank and poke the lure under overhangs you couldnt cast to in order to catch fish.If this is wrong, I would sure like to know what it is too.

I heard a guy say he sometimes rams the front of his boat into reeds or weeds and the he will doodlesock for bass.

I saw a guy in a pirquoe(sp?) on Rayburn when the water was 10' high. We were fishing an Everstart and my pro had us WAY back in the tree's. This guy absolutely blew our mind. We couldn't catch a fish over 2-3#'s and this guy comes through with a "cane pole" and little firetiger Mepps spinner and was catching 5# fish all over the place. We tried everything we could to duplicate but with no success. It really messed us up for almost an hour.

YOUR RIGHT ABOUT THE CANE POLE, ALTHOUGH THEY MAKE FIBERGLASS RODS TODAY FOR THAT TECHNIQUE.
IT WAS DEVELOPED TO GET A SMALL BAIT INTO PLACES WHERE IS IMPOSSIBLE TO CAST, THEN JUST JIG THE LURE UP AND DOWN. REMEMBER THIS IS PRIOR TO FLIPPING AND PITCHING BUT SAME CONCEPT. A SIMILIR TECHNIQUE IS CALLED NOODLING. EVER HEARD OF A NOODLING POLE.

i watched a video on using a jigger pole once, but they didnt call it doodle socking. guy went up and down the bank with a top water plug tied on and a smaller bait behind it, made it look like something was chasing a wounded bait fish.

remember (incase you were thinking it) most tourneys have a length limit on rods.

Dee Thomas was doing this just before he invented Flipping and pitching. They were using poles up to 20' long!

I worked on an offshore rig with a man
by the name of Shoopeck {sp} Who said that
he had fished that way for years and he called
it Jiggerpoling. He was a cajun and when he first
started doing it he would use a peice of red
ribbon or feather for a lure.

Coach, back in the 70's I was taught to Doodle sock while fishing a bass tourny. My partner said to pull up to some buck brush, drop the plastic worm down through the branches, doodle it around a bit and then sock it to the bass. Bout had my wrist broke by some of those bass. Sure makes em mad. I guess for that time it was a modern version of doodle socking. lol

The cane pole (and later a fiberglass pole) is called Jigger poling. I've fished with fishermen in Tennessee that use the technique a lot and some tournaments allow Jigger poles up to 10' long. BAck breaking work when you do it all day! You can tie on a top water, or in-line spinner, but most of the Tennessee guys put on a T-rigged Culprit worm and dropped it straight down beside a Buck bush or something like that and wiggled it. When the fish bit they hauled that sucker in the boat with one great big heave!

Doodle Socking as we used to do back in the sixties and seventies on Rayburn consisted of a special plastic jig with octopuss looking appendages instead of a rubber skirt. You would get out by a tall tree in 10 to 30' of water at an intersection of a creek and a river or some prominant structure change and vertical jig that bait. In the winter you could cull in minutes if they were stacked up in one place like that. Now-a-days the term generally implies a vertical presentation of some sort of soft plastic, by a tree, a dock piling, bridge piling, in the reeds and grass and places like that. There are a number of different baits that work well, including sliders. My favorite is Baby Brush Hogs and Lizards in the reeds and finesse worms in the cleaner stuff.

Yep, and the rest of the field, being the crybabies that they were, forced a rule change. That's why there there is a rule in BASS that says no rods 8ft or longer. IF YOU'RE SCARED, SAY YOU'RE SCARED!

I love to doodle-sock, I learned how to do this many years ago in oxbow lakes in Mississippi for bream. I use a fly rod or a fiberglass crappie pole. Last weekend at Sandlin my rig was a 3" twin tail grub, 1/4 oz. jig head, 4 lb. mono on a 13' crappie pole. I caught several bass and I only fished 2 hrs. in the morning and evening each day (Wed/Thur/Sat) Friday was windy. This is the way I do it.

Drift though the stumps and stickups, slowly drop the bait down along each one. The bite comes when it is falling or within 5/6 seconds of reaching the bottom. I usually catch bass in the 1.5-2.5 lb. range, not large but great fun. If I am after crappie I use a 1/16 to 1/8 oz. marabou jig. I try not to use the trolling motor.

Try doodle-socking I think you will have a great time. Remember to hang on to that pole, sometimes you get a real surpise and have a lot of fun.
Good luck

The only difference between doodle-socking and flipping is the reel on the pole and the the length of the pole.

This is the same basic method for catching fish a virtical jigging right in heavey cover.

So which is this? Doodle socking, jigger poling or something else?