Night Bassing ~ A-Jay's Version

[A-Jay]

11 hours ago, WhatJustHappened said:

This is something I miss a lot, I fished FW at night many times a summer when I was younger, fishing mostly Hulas and Jitterbugs. Never even considered Worms/Jigs, I fished 9" Mann's jelly worms the  most during the day(I still think as good as any)

Was catching pretty decent fish using the aforementioned lures.

Guess I was missing out not trying bottom.

 

Thanks 

IME, if they'll eat it during the day,

they'll eat it at night.

Often under the same type of conditions.

A-Jay

[WhatJustHappened]

I fished Chunk Mackerel at night for stripers and bluefish, I don't believe I have ever tried my bottom baits at night for LM/SMB.

I'LL remember that, but I haven't fished at night in FW for awhile, and I don't suspect I will anytime soon(an old friend liked that)...maybe up the street at Sabbathia sometime this year.

 

Thanks for the info.

[BassKat]

At night, the hope is always that they will rise for topwater or at least take a big colorado fairly high in the column. If those don't work, BC with larger ribbontails sometimes plays well.

[ATA]

I was bass fishing while waiting for trout bite and I tried everything for 11 yours and god knows how many casts, I tried everything bottom and middle and top and try different lure for each section, Speed fishing and slow fishing and dead sticking, NOTHING WORKS 🤣. Oh man I love bass fishing, I would never forget that night. that's a short clip of conditions , Milk chocolate water and fog that you even couldn't see the water and wind and cold and ETC...

 

https://youtu.be/Pj9QhzaVSko

[DFWdarin]

 Man I love bass fishing at night. I've been doing it for years. I've been doing it since hell. I was a teenager. But I do it mostly nowadays just because I got a son I'm raising and you know it just doesn't always work out for me to get out there in the lake whenever. I should be home cooking dinner and stuff. So I go often at night. It also keeps my wife off I disagree. She's jealous of fishing or something I don't know. Explain it but some of you guys out there know what I'm talking about. Anyway, I've caught huge bass too at night and especially at high pressured areas where I know bass are but they're just not going to bite like off. Rip rap on some of these public legs that I fish here in North Texas. Well my home Lake mostly but Lake Ray Hubbard. A little tip that works for me. If I'm struggling to get a bite, a tie on a short weight leader line to my drop shot with a black power worm and or a black OSP Beaver 4 in usually. And those always seem to come in clutch for me. You can free rig the beaver and you can free rig. The worm I wouldn't though though. I would fish a Texas rig with you know whatever size weight you think you need for your condition and or you use the drop shot. Anytime. I really really need to get a bite and I'm having trouble getting a bite at night time I tie on one of those and it's usually money. Now with the beaver it's a little different. I guess you can use a bronco bug but I wouldn't. The texture of the OSP Beaver is so much better. You may not catch as many fish with one, but you'll catch fis©h with them guaranteed. Now I fished that free rig or I like to fish it with a big bite bait shorty head. It's kind of their Ned Head but it is a ewg three\° Hook and it works really well. So I would rig it on that free rig and or works really good with the split shot too . Also, if you're going to be fishing public lakes from the bank at night, do yourself a favor. Wear you some rubber boots like you know things you might spread concrete in or something. You know something that covers your ankles and a little bit of your leg because moskins are out there but there's even other things too. I mean last year I got charged by three rats scared as s*** out of me anyway, it's not as bad as when I was pond hopping as a teenager and got ran into the water by horses. I thought we were coyotes I guess at 3:00 a.m. in the morning.

 

 I hope you guys tear them up 

Darin Ray 

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