“If I could pitch or flip and jig under a dock the way a lot of guys can, that’s probably the way to go,” Wright said. “But I think with everybody fishing docks, you have to do something a little different.”

And for Wright, that means picking up a spinning outfit spooled with 8-pound-test braided line and skipping a tiny worm up under docks, looking for fish that flippers and pitchers can’t easily reach.

“I’m fishing a spinning rod and a finesse worm most of the time now,” Wright said. “I fish a Zoom trick worm in June bug or black, and I’ll fish it with a 1/16-ounce Tungsten weight pegged, on 8- or 10-pound braid, maybe with a short piece of 17-pound fluorocarbon leader.

“With that weight pegged, I can skip that little worm like a rock and get it back under the docks where people can’t pitch or flip.”

In the back of his mind, however, Wright is hoping that the high water the past two years is just part of a cycle, and that this spring, bass will return to their “normal” High Rock patterns -- spawning in May, starting the pre-spawn around Mother’s Day and being totally off the bank and feeding like sharks come the last week of the month.

“Usually, around the end of May, you’ll really start catching them out on points. In years past, I’d have my crankbaits out by then,” he said. “There is an extreme amount of difference between the first of the month and the end of the month. The first part is basically the largest part of the spawn; the end of May, there will barely be any fish left spawning.

“And it depends a little bit on what kind of spring you have. If you’ve got a later spring, you’ll have more fish spawning; if you’ve got an early spring, almost all of them will be in post-spawn.”