Do pike use docks, flooded timber, sand flats or tailwaters when there is no weed edge?
Yes, as substitutes — a pike wants something to lie beside. Marinas and boat canals are the best known: dark-bottomed, sheltered, and among the first water to warm, they draw pike in early spring, and their docks shade small fish all summer. In reservoirs and flowages where weeds are scarce, flooded timber and stumps hold pike the way a cabbage bed would; given a choice, the fish takes the weed edge. Below dams, the upstream spawning run stalls in spring, and the fish sit where river pike always sit — slack eddies and backwaters, the soft side of the seam, never the fast water. Bare sand and gravel flats offer no ambush; pike cross them, and hunt there only where scattered weed clumps or a school of bait breaks up the emptiness. Closed seasons vary by jurisdiction.
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