Bank Fishing: Punching from the bank...do you?

[scudzilla66]

I've been reading quite a bit about the punching technique lately and it really interest me because 3 of the ponds I fish have heavy thick grass in them. Some of it is submerged about 2-3 feet but most comes all the way to the surface.

So do you, have you, can you punch from the bank and what's the best way to go about it?

[Lipripper]

Sure you can . I haven't donew so much what you would call punching but it's the same idea. I have caught lots of fish this way. I work my senko back and forth like a drill bite until it works it's way through the slop or weeds


I guess if you added weight to my rig you could get through that real thick stuff also but I do know if there are any fish under there they will smack it .

[LgMouthGambler]

Sure. Some canals down here will get a good growth of hyacinth, a good punch rig will get under it and get a fish thats there.

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[FlatsNBay]

My buddies 12 year old son got a flipping stick this year and has been tearing them up pitching and punching from the bank so sure it is a great technique! I have pitched and flipped standing on docks at a marina before and also in a narrow canal. I haven't tried punching yet but now you got me excited to test it out! Lol

[Ron Fogelson]

Yep do it all the time while camping on Grand,, they have a back water area for boats to park next to your camper with a huge seawall around it and a bridge so when I don't feel like taking the boat out when it gets hot or the place is full of jetskis  I'll walk around the seawall punching everything until I get to the bridge, walk across back to the seawall and do another lap 

[cortman]

I've caught a bunch of fish punching. Biggest so far was a 4.85 out of a bunch of slime algae and coontail. Caught it from the bank. I bombed a long cast out and it happened to land right over a hungry fish. That's kind of the thing with punching- it's more a vertical presentation. If you throw out a long cast you should let it get to the bottom, bounce it around a few times, and if you don't get bit reel it up to the surface and drag it across to another hole, let it drop and bounce it. But if it's already choked up with weeds when you pull it out of the first hole don't get frustrated, just burn it in over the top.

[big g]

No, I dont take a flipping rod, but rather concentrate on drop offs and working up the drop-off, from the bottom / up, and the edges of the flat especially where it meets the heavy vegetation.  In south Florida we have large drop-offs especially in our man made lakes and canals, of which there are many.  These bodies of water are all tied together with the Everglades, through our vast canal system. 

If I took a flipping rod I would have to take two.  I would hate that!

[BankBassBait]

I've punched a few times, with little success. I only caught 1.5-2lbs. The hard part is getting the weight to gently punch and nit splash. But it gets you pumping when they bite!

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[Capt. BassinLou]

I don't punch when I bank fish because that would limit my outing to a couple of techniques and the areas I go to do not have much to punch into anyways. I will flip an area however.

[rockchalk06]

Never did until I went to Guntersville. Now that I spent so much on a rod, I've been doing it every chance I get.