Marina: Specific fish-holding locations

Separate entrance, outside row, and interior shade

Entrances may have passing prey; outside-row docks are close to deep water; the interior may be quiet shelter. Compare these three first. Fish can also suspend under floaters far off bottom, so bottom depth doesn’t automatically make a soft plastic a bottom-targeting sink.

Example: Basin 20 ft, fish show 4–8 ft under the outside-row floats; start with a natural slow fall or swim a soft swimbait through that layer. If there’s chasing at the entrance, expand with moving baits; if only around a particular post you get bites, switch to precise short pitches.

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