Midsummer update

[Brew City Bass]

Well this is basically mid-summer in Wisconsin now. I've been working way more than I'd like and fish less than I need to. 

I've been able to consistently get out on the weekends. I try to get out friday and saturday nights. Relief from the heat and the big girls come out to play. 

Fishing has been decent. Good numbers, averaging 15 a night (10pm-1am) and I've had a night where I caught 30. Biggest this year was a 4.5lb and a bunch just under 4lbs. No luck with 7+ lbers like two years ago, but it still might be a little early for them to go shallow like I want. I always use a black or black variation colorado spinner bait. I cast as close to shore as possible and roll it as slow as it will go. Bass up here move stupid shallow at night and are AGGRESSIVE towards loud baits. 

[scaleface]

Ive been twice at night . Had one good night and one lousy . No doubt about it . Night fishing here is best the first couple days before a full moon because the moon is high and bright when the sun goes down . It will be early August next time its in that phase . Dark nights are much tougher .

[Todd2]

16 minutes ago, scaleface said:

Ive been twice at night . Had one good night and one lousy .

Exactly the same here... I have decided to start sitting at night, bumped a tree the other night and almost went in the drink.

[Brew City Bass]

1 hour ago, scaleface said:

Ive been twice at night . Had one good night and one lousy . No doubt about it . Night fishing here is best the first couple days before a full moon because the moon is high and bright when the sun goes down . It will be early August next time its in that phase . Dark nights are much tougher .

Thankfully it's still fish in a barrel here at night even on dark nights. 

I went last saturday and it was cloudy and bad moon. Still caught 22 bass and my partner got 12. 

It seems like as soon as the water hits 75-80 degrees they just hunker down in the day and don't feed, then about 10pm they start hammering everything til 1am.

[Born 2 fish]

2 hours ago, Brew City Bass said:

Well this is basically mid-summer in Wisconsin now. I've been working way more than I'd like and fish less than I need to. 

I've been able to consistently get out on the weekends. I try to get out friday and saturday nights. Relief from the heat and the big girls come out to play. 

Fishing has been decent. Good numbers, averaging 15 a night (10pm-1am) and I've had a night where I caught 30. Biggest this year was a 4.5lb and a bunch just under 4lbs. No luck with 7+ lbers like two years ago, but it still might be a little early for them to go shallow like I want. I always use a black or black variation colorado spinner bait. I cast as close to shore as possible and roll it as slow as it will go. Bass up here move stupid shallow at night and are AGGRESSIVE towards loud baits. 

I’ve been doing the same thing in southeast Wisconsin same bait also.

[Bluebasser86]

2 hours ago, scaleface said:

Ive been twice at night . Had one good night and one lousy . No doubt about it . Night fishing here is best the first couple days before a full moon because the moon is high and bright when the sun goes down . It will be early August next time its in that phase . Dark nights are much tougher .

It's the opposite for me. Bright moon is a tough bite, darker nights are much better. Only thing that's good about the bright moon is the bites I get seem to be good fish.

[Oregon Native]

Been blessed to get out at least twice a week for small tourneys from five to nine.  We fish a smaller lake with tons of other boaters so it's tough but it takes around ten pounds with five fish to win usually.  Glad to not fish the darkness....don't trust eye's now.  Fish are not huge but it's a tug.

[Fishin Dad]

Night fishing for bass is something I have never done.   I may have to head out and give this a try.  That is if the bugs don’t carry me away!

[Ogandrews]

I’m in Minnesota and the heat is changing my waters for sure but not in a bad way. I’m not sure why but I am getting way less bites but only good ones. My last two trips out to local waters I have only gotten 2-8 fish each time but haven’t caught one smaller than 4lbs either trip with the biggest being a 7.2. Everything has been either on a teckel sprinker or a 1/2 oz dirty jigs no jack swim jig. This water is normally a low density big fish fishery but this is out of the norm even for here to not get anything smaller than 4. Everything has been on outside weed edges in 6-8 fow.

[scaleface]

I went again last night and only caught two fish after dark , no moon . Did get to see the comet . I caught 8 before dark and earlier  caught 12 at a culvert in an irrigation ditch .

[the reel ess]

On 7/14/2020 at 8:29 PM, Brew City Bass said:

Well this is basically mid-summer in Wisconsin now. I've been working way more than I'd like and fish less than I need to. 

I've been able to consistently get out on the weekends. I try to get out friday and saturday nights. Relief from the heat and the big girls come out to play. 

Fishing has been decent. Good numbers, averaging 15 a night (10pm-1am) and I've had a night where I caught 30. Biggest this year was a 4.5lb and a bunch just under 4lbs. No luck with 7+ lbers like two years ago, but it still might be a little early for them to go shallow like I want. I always use a black or black variation colorado spinner bait. I cast as close to shore as possible and roll it as slow as it will go. Bass up here move stupid shallow at night and are AGGRESSIVE towards loud baits. 

If you have a job and a family and go an average of twice a week, I'm jealous.

[Guitarfish]

When I was young and had energy, I would send my work crews out, then hook up my boat and go fishing.  Made all my calls from the boat and set up all the work orders for the next day or two.  Never told the crews or they would have mutinied.   Then Friday I'd switch to the 10' BassHunter for night fishing.  Wife never complained either.  How lucky was I?