I searched for Bob's actual definition of fluffy cover. so far this it the best I found. Fluffy cover - limbs from hardwood trees, especially limbs 3-4" diameter, tied together and anchored with a concrete block. A large pile of haphazardly placed logs be comes fluffy cover. An underwater stump field is fluffy cover. PVC pipe works well, drilled with holes, with smaller pieces of pipe pushed through. Make an artificial "tree" of PVC, and put several trees in each area. Rock, concrete blocks piled like a pyramid work well, too. Basically from discussions with Bob, I interpret fluffy cover similar to that described above where bass can freely swim among the larger openings and hold in the shadows waiting for vulnerable prey opportunities.
More from one of my posts: Usually fish attractors are composed of a loose, open weave or spacious consistency. Bob Lusk calls this fluffy cover. In fluffy cover predators and large panfish locate within and among the cover. Whereas Predators often hunt the edges of dense cover described below.
For REFUGE areas for small fish to be most effective cover should be finely divided surfaces (dense cover) similar to stems and leaves of a submerged weed bed and ideally comprise a significant part of the littoral or shallow areas covering 20%-40% of the shoreline in 6 inches to 3ft deep. Most everyone has fished among rooted underwater weeds to recognize dense cover. It is difficult to fish in this type of dense cover and most anglers avoid it due to lures constantly catching weeds. Lily pad stems underwater IMO are actually in-between dense cover and fluffy cover.
Example a fresh evergreen tree with needles is similar to dense cover whereas that tree with most all branches rotted away to a thin skeleton with just a few large branches left is trending toward fluffy cover.
Last edited by Bill Cody; 12/16/20 08:03 PM.
