Do trout use wood, reeds, docks or mud bottom the way bass do?
Only wood, and only in moving water. For stream trout — brook trout above all — logjams, root wads and undercut banks are prime lies: overhead cover next to a food lane, and the biggest fish in the pool owns the best one. A bridge piling is simply one more current break. Still-water cover is a different story. Reeds and docks are not trout habitat; stocked rainbows and pond brookies cruise past reed edges and docks in spring and fall because insects hatch there and the water is still cold, and they leave when the shallows warm. Lake trout ignore wood and vegetation entirely. Mud bottom is the surprise: in productive trout lakes the big spring hatch is chironomids (midges) rising off soft-bottom shoals, and rainbows graze them methodically. So fish cover in streams, and temperature and food in lakes.
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