Behind docks around spawning pockets and secondary points at the back for large coves with small rock and slightly sloping contour.

Today my son Rob and I did not get on the water until about 5:00PM and we fished til 8:30PM. We started out in a cove with condo docks and residential docks that are protected from the wind, etc. with good spawning rocks, etc. We went in and out of about 8 docks with only a couple of short fish. However, we were seeing some pretty good sized bass just swimming around and some fish on beds. It seems that this last group of spawners have moved up shallow and either just getting on beds or are on beds. Generally this second wave of spawning bass are smaller, however there are some pretty good ones getting shallow right now. After not doing too well on one bank, we moved to the other side of the cove with similar docks/structure, I flipped the Crock-o-Gator Shaker Head with the Bruised Banana Trick worm on it under a walk way and my line immediately started to move toward the back of the dock, when I set the hook I knew it was a good one and it was, 5.5 pounder. We fished that area a bit more with no bites, then we moved to the back of a large cove with open banks, we had many bites and two more keepers on secondary points in 4′-8′ of water sitting off the point and open banks around them about 20 yards of so off the bank. We had lots of bites on the Shaker Head with the Trick Worm and several bites on the Dirks Jig, which you can get exclusively at Fitz Fishing in Osage Beach.