Swearing at Swimbaits

[PhishLI]

1 hour ago, Ford said:

may stay and take advantage of the lights for night fishing.

All I fish in my immediate area are shallow lakes. There aren't any marinas and generally no lights whatsover. In these places the worst nights to fish are when there's moonlight, like tonight/this morning. I just got back. Thankfully there was cloud cover, but the moon illuminated it enough that we barely needed flashlights. The bite was OK tonight, but nothing like it's been recently with far more darkness. All of my bites came in the shadow lines cast by the moonlight. To be clear, I'm not saying that a situation like a well lit marina can't be a positive, just that here it's not. As a matter of fact, the far side of this particular lake has a culvert where street lights shine on the water. Fishing at night there is rarely good at all. My point is don't limit yourself to where you fish at night to areas that have light. The best fishing might be where it's darkest. Baitfish have a survival instinct too. There's a reason that they go shallow. They also avoid the light in order to not be seen. P.S. The swimbait bite wasn't happening tonight. Everything came slow rolling paddletails on the bottom, which is typical on moonlit nights during this part of the season where the pads aren't up yet.