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Meaning fishing in the dark3/5/2023 If you throw a buzzbait up by the bank and it doesn’t start off making the right sound, you know you’ve got a little piece of grass or trash on it and you can give it a twitch to correct it or just go ahead and reel it in and reset. But I state that simple fact to emphasize the importance of fishing with a bait you can tell is operating correctly without being able to see it. For one, it takes a lot of the guess work out of it. The cover of night allows you to throw a bigger bait, which is actually more effective at times to draw a bigger strike from the school at night than you could finesse up during the day.ĭefinitely still in the top-three night bite producers of all time, the buzzbait is another perfect bait to fish in the dark. If I have a brush pile in 12 feet of clear water that’s holding fish, I’ll slow-roll a blade through it at night even if the only thing I can get them to bite during the daytime is a shaky head. The big difference though is water clarity isn’t as restrictive. So if you’re catching fish well in a shallow creek in the daytime, try the same area at night. As contrary as it seems to my common sense, black shows up the best to bass in the dark.Īs for fishing a spinnerbait at night, you basically just want to look for the same areas where you would anticipate the fish being during the day. And if the blades aren’t black, we’ll take a marker and color them black. We even buy spinnerbaits with black blades to match the skirt. Whether we’re talking spinnerbaits, the next two baits we’ll discuss or anything else you want to throw at night. Something that has never really made sense to me but has been proven time and time again, is that black is the most effective color at night. The vibration generated by the heavy thump of a Colorado blade spinning in the water turns the bait into a homing beacon capable of drawing bass in through the dark waters. A Colorado blade works well at night for the same reason it does in muddy water. ![]() Here are three baits to try in the dark.Ī big Colorado blade spinnerbait is probably the most popular lure of all for night fishing. Which begs the question for anglers new to night fishing… how in the world do I catch fish at night without lights? Well, funny you should ask. So the number of lights available to fish seems to dwindle by the day. Add to that, many homeowners now have had run-ins with anglers and choose to turn off their lights at the first sign of an approaching bass boat. Though fishing lights at night can be very productive, their popularity paired with the increased number of boats vying for them has greatly reduced their productivity. Pier lights and underwater lights are the low-hanging fruit of night fishing and certainly what most newer anglers gravitate towards. Now though, with the massive influx of interest in fishing in general, there’s been a noticeable spike as well in anglers trying out night fishing for the first time. Outside of that small percentage, however, it really wasn’t a big deal the lakes weren’t very crowded at night and you could move around pretty easily and fish whatever you liked. The point is that nighttime bass fishing has always been popular to the core group of anglers. Something that hardly sounds appealing to me now at 34, but similar to experiences I shared with my best friends a few times coming up as well. From the hardcore anglers of old, I’ve heard plenty of stories that predate my lifetime where guys like my dad would work all day, dump their boat in at sunset, fish all the way through to sunrise then take out and head straight to work. Bass fishing at night has been a big deal for as long as I can remember, especially in the summer.
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