Go to a Northern Wisconsin lake in summer and you’ll see anglers in boats, casting lures or soaking bobbers near lily pad beds or brush piles near shore. That’s the way they fish; a well-known guide refers to such folks as “bank beaters.”
What he means is they stick to the same shoreline-based tactics all the time. Now, shoreline fishing works and can yield some nice catches. But if on a given day there are no fish in those areas, or they are there but not biting, the “bank beaters” are out of luck.
The remedy is to head out to deeper
