night fishing!

[wv1755]

It makes your line glow

[riverbasser]

2 minutes ago, wv1755 said:

It makes your line glow

all line or certain ones?

[wv1755]

You have to have clear blue. I use Stren

[Joey Battipaglia]

1 hour ago, hawgenvy said:

I assume you're using "MONEY" metaphorically. If by chance you fish night tournaments I'd like to know.

hahaha yeah i don't fish night tournaments 

[Mr. Aquarium]

i did good last night with chatter baits and my brand spankin new strike king night spinner bait! first time using a spinner bait at night! ITS MONEY!  everyone says topwater is the best! but at this pond i havent done good on topwaters

[Jar11591]

The biggest bass I have ever caught was just after midnight, on a large black Jitterbug. She smashed it about 2 feet from shore in the darkness. The average size bass I catch at night absolutely dwarfs my average size during the day. I also do well on 10" Culprit ribbon-tails, 7" senkos, and Rage Craws. I can't wait to get out at night soon! Whenever I night-fish, I always have that lingering thought "The next fish could be a giant...." in the back of my head!!

[Mr. Aquarium]

right! fish the places you know have giants and youll have a better chance at catching one at night!  ive only fished from shore at night! i cant wait to get in a boat and fish the place ive been doing well at!  big pond with big bass both smallies and largies! if im getting good numbers from shore at the only shore fishing spot  i can only imagine how good it will be when in a boat

[GORDO]

On 6/10/2016 at 11:22 AM, wv1755 said:

It makes your line glow

i would have never thought about that in my life. 

 

[Jon P.]

if you have crayfish in your local lake bass will move shallow at night to hunt them, they will listen intently for the tell tail thumpthumpthump of a swimming crayfish. as far as full moon vs crescent i would definitely side with full, the added light increases the bass's chance of locating your lure.

for lure choice i would go with rattling jigs and noisy top-waters. all in black for a better silhouette with trailer hooks on the jigs

also, always use the red light option on your head lamp, fish don't react to it nearly as much

[Bluebasser86]

44 minutes ago, Jon P. said:

 

for lure choice i would go with rattling jigs and noisy top-waters. all in black for a better silhouette with trailer hooks on the jigs

 

[Jon P.]

On 7/7/2016 at 0:08 AM, Bluebasser86 said:

you're going to want trailer hooks on the jigs to improve your hook-up ratio. the bass are much less accurate at night when it comes to attacking, so the trailer hook helps

[riverbasser]

19 minutes ago, Jon P. said:

you're going to want trailer hooks on the jigs to improve your hook-up ratio. the bass are much less accurate at night when it comes to attacking, so the trailer hook helps

While I don't deny any trailer hook might increase hookups. I can't believe that bass are any less accurate in there feeding just because its dark. 

[Gundog]

23 minutes ago, Jon P. said:

you're going to want trailer hooks on the jigs to improve your hook-up ratio. the bass are much less accurate at night when it comes to attacking, so the trailer hook helps

That is new to me and I think I like it. It would also allow me to use a bigger plastic to put on the jig. Nice idea Jon.

[Holden.C]

On June 10, 2016 at 0:14 PM, wytstang said:

I'll be fishing at 3am in the morning and plan on throwing chatterbaits and swim jigs with paddle tail swim baits and craw dads (basically what I throw during the day). Since I will be shore fishing snake proof boots, side arm (gators) , head lamp with up to 750 lumens if needed, and a safety vest. I may try some top water lures but they tend to attract small gators so we'll see.

I learned the top water thing attracting gators the hard way while vacationing in SC. I was fishing a spook and a 3.5 foot gator came up and ate it. I eventually just had to cut my line.

[Bluebasser86]

1 hour ago, Jon P. said:

you're going to want trailer hooks on the jigs to improve your hook-up ratio. the bass are much less accurate at night when it comes to attacking, so the trailer hook helps

I night fish a lot, never needed a trailer hook. It would be a nightmare to fish that through the weeds and trees I fish. 

A bass' other senses take over for their loss of vision at night, similar to bass that live in dirty water. 

[Jon P.]

15 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

I night fish a lot, never needed a trailer hook. It would be a nightmare to fish that through the weeds and trees I fish. 

A bass' other senses take over for their loss of vision at night, similar to bass that live in dirty water. 

you could always try an offset wide gap hook as a trailer if you have weedlessness problems.

personally, living in Montana, all the lakes are rock and gravel with a smattering of milfoil bed so I've never really had to deal with snaggy cover.

15 hours ago, riverbasser said:

While I don't deny any trailer hook might increase hookups. I can't believe that bass are any less accurate in there feeding just because its dark. 

if there is no light bass cant perfectly pinpoint your bait by sight, so they will just plow the area that they heard it.

imagine what it would be like fist fighting someone in the dark, you cant see them, so you swipe at the areas you hear noises coming from.

[Bluebasser86]

Just now, Jon P. said:

you could always try an offset wide gap hook as a trailer if you have weedlessness problems.

personally, living in Montana, all the lakes are rock and gravel with a smattering of milfoil bed so I've never really had to deal with snaggy cover.

I've never felt a need for a trailer hook on a jig, day or night. If I'm missing fish on a jig, small fish are almost always the cause and I don't really care to catch them anyways. 

I have the opposite problem of fish missing the jig at night. Usually when I get a jig bite at night, it ends up looking like this.

[Jon P.]

1 hour ago, Bluebasser86 said:

I've never felt a need for a trailer hook on a jig, day or night. If I'm missing fish on a jig, small fish are almost always the cause and I don't really care to catch them anyways. 

I have the opposite problem of fish missing the jig at night. Usually when I get a jig bite at night, it ends up looking like this.

i usually fish a 1 oz. football head, if you're fishing a lighter jig its possible the bass can more easily suck up your jig.

[Catt]

1 hour ago, Jon P. said:

if there is no light bass cant perfectly pinpoint your bait by sight, so they will just plow the area that they heard it.

It's called lateral line system

It's how bass find prey in off colored water or in darkness!

[Jon P.]

6 hours ago, Catt said:

It's called lateral line system

It's how bass find prey in off colored water or in darkness!

i know what the lateral line is, I'm just saying that it isn't as accurate as sight

[Catt]

41 minutes ago, Jon P. said:

i know what the lateral line is, I'm just saying that it isn't as accurate as sight

It's accurate enough that don't just plow through the area where they heard it!

With eyesight & lateral line they can find a black worm sitting on the bottom in total darkness!

[Jon P.]

so you're saying that a total lack of light doesn't affect the bass at all?

 

[MFBAB]

17 minutes ago, Jon P. said:

so you're saying that a total lack of light doesn't affect the bass at all?

I don't know what the other guys are saying, but IMO, a total lack of light absolutely affects the bass, but IN A POSITIVE way!!

That creates an advantageous feeding situation for them, a dark night acts similar to windy/cloudy/rainy conditions for bass, as predators they are best able to feed when there are conditions that best enable them to ambush prey.  Dark+ windy/cloudy/rainy = even better!! (obvious exceptions would be these conditions when coupled with a massive cold front or flash-flood type situation, for example)

I think one of the biggest mistakes most fishermen make is to try and equate bass vision to human vision....it's not the same.  The bass is able to see a lot better than we can imagine in muddy water or pitch black nighttime conditions.  They don't have (or need) flashlights like we do, but they darn well feed rain or shine, day or night, hot or cold, etc...somehow!!  They are the apex predator in most of the waters where I fish, at least after reaching a reasonable size, and they are well equipped to hunt day or night. 

They don't have a problem finding our baits at night, but they still won't hit them if we don't present them correctly based on what they are feeding on at the time, ie: make the presentation imitate what the prey is doing, which will probably be a lot more impacted by the various weather/light conditions at any given time.  In other words, What we perceive as the bass reacting to conditions is probably more often the bass reacting to the preys reaction to the conditions. 

JMO

[Catt]

55 minutes ago, Jon P. said:

so you're saying that a total lack of light doesn't affect the bass at all?

 

Don't fish much at night do ya?

Bass have no problem finding you lure at night in off colored water.

Do they occasionally miss your lure at night...why yea but no more than they do during the daylight.

[Bluebasser86]

11 hours ago, Jon P. said:

i usually fish a 1 oz. football head, if you're fishing a lighter jig its possible the bass can more easily suck up your jig.

That's a 1oz football jig in the picture.

A bass can create enough suction to inhale a prey item from several inches away, they have no problem suctioning in a 1oz jig. If you've never seen Glen Lau's "Bigmouth Forever", it's a real eye opener on how easy it really is for a bass to inhale a bait.