Night Fishing In June

[MOhawghunter417]

Has anyone had a recent night fishing trip with five bass over 15lbs.? I fished two different night last weekend and caught several bass, mixed bag of small mouth and large mouth but nothing big. Best one was under three lbs. Will it get better in the month of June? Will the better fish stay out deep or pull up shallow on points to feed? Does anyone catch big fish on single spins anymore? I haven't spent much time on the water at night the last few years but I used to really sack some good fish at night and some up shallow. Please post any info you will share.

[Old plug]

I wish I could still get out here on LOZ at night. But at 75 the eyes are not what they were in the dark and it a real b---- to retie a line with a pen light. Used to be i would just close my eyes and tie clinch nots and everything else by feel. I like june up here the best for night fishing followed by July. Around here I just git the brush in the shallows and points. Like any other time you need to know where the spots are.

[Quillback]

Has anyone had a recent night fishing trip with five bass over 15lbs.? I fished two different night last weekend and caught several bass, mixed bag of small mouth and large mouth but nothing big. Best one was under three lbs. Will it get better in the month of June? Will the better fish stay out deep or pull up shallow on points to feed? Does anyone catch big fish on single spins anymore? I haven't spent much time on the water at night the last few years but I used to really sack some good fish at night and some up shallow. Please post any info you will share.

Ask Jason Essary to post the Mill Creek night tourney results - those guys always have some big bags.

[Mitch f]

I would ask Merc1997 about it...he's the night fishing king

[dtrs5kprs]

Seems like the night guys are some of the more tight lipped, Jason and Bo aside.

[Old plug]

ME TOO. If I could get out there and function like I used to.

I tried to go out a couple nights ago to fish 5 or 6 docks along my bank. I had gotten a 4lb'er in the area just a evening before very close to total darkness.So i got the itch to go. I tied up a couple worms one 12" and the other 101/2. weighted both with 1/8 oz slip sinkers.I made a few cast and a gar got ahold of the 12" worm and took it all away from me. I then got out the trusty flashlight to tie on another one. That is when I discovered it was a invisible phantom line because I could hardly find it much less tie a knot in it even with the flashlight. After a very frustrating and demeaning struggle lasting several minutes I gave up in disgust and switched to the other rod . I made a few cast caught one short and then had a very very slight overrun. I straightened that out and and turned the crank and the reel jammed. That was were I discovered the rotten invisible phantom line had gotten itself into the reel handle where it was hiding from me and the flashlight. While search there it escaped off the reel a little bit and further compounded the problem. I became so disgusted with myself I came in and quit. Made me feel like I was a one man 3 stooges. Now you know what you got to look forward to you whipper snappers.

[Hazbin]

ME TOO. If I could get out there and function like I used to.

I tried to go out a couple nights ago to fish 5 or 6 docks along my bank. I had gotten a 4lb'er in the area just a evening before very close to total darkness.So i got the itch to go. I tied up a couple worms one 12" and the other 101/2. weighted both with 1/8 oz slip sinkers.I made a few cast and a gar got ahold of the 12" worm and took it all away from me. I then got out the trusty flashlight to tie on another one. That is when I discovered it was a invisible phantom line because I could hardly find it much less tie a knot in it even with the flashlight. After a very frustrating and demeaning struggle lasting several minutes I gave up in disgust and switched to the other rod . I made a few cast caught one short and then had a very very slight overrun. I straightened that out and and turned the crank and the reel jammed. That was were I discovered the rotten invisible phantom line had gotten itself into the reel handle where it was hiding from me and the flashlight. While search there it escaped off the reel a little bit and further compounded the problem. I became so disgusted with myself I came in and quit. Made me feel like I was a one man 3 stooges. Now you know what you got to look forward to you whipper snappers.

Pro, That sounds like a comedy of error, but hear is the deal!, the more you're out there the more you become acclimated to the conditions. Here on TR the water is so clear and it is so peaceful and beautiful out there at night that we have to punch ourselves to see if we are alive or have we gone to heaven. Hardly any boat traffic other than Water Patrol bugging us about our lights as the better fish are not anywhere near the banks. Believe me you will give up that hot miserable daytime fishing in a hurry, plus the fact you can catch up on your golf game in the daytime. And at 82 I am still at it.

[Old plug]

Maybe. I still fish at bite now and then but bot on a regular basis. That was just a mess. I just might bot have the bight vision I had at one time.

[Jason Essary]

Weight in 15.18 last night. Fishing is tough. With water temps where they are the fish can be in 25' and 2'. No set pattern but when you catch one stop. They seem to be schooled and when you hit them feeding its on.

[merc1997 Bo]

i have fished a few nights recently, and we are catching quite a number of keepers. last monday, we had 15 keepers, but nothing over 3 1/2 lbs. we just fished right around big m. i am not really convinced there a number of big bass around there, but seems to be a good number of keepers. i have caught a good number of 5+ in the last month, but most of those have came in the cambell point and baxter area. my wife and i fished aroung big m last night and we had 5 keepers and a 22 inch walleye. the walleye was dripping eggs, one bass was empty, one almost empty of eggs, and the other two full of eggs. i talked to a friend that has been fishing under lights for crappie around eagle rock, and has been railing them, and he said they were all full of eggs, and really close to spawning yet. eggs were just beginning to get bloody. another buddy of mine was fishing the old 86 area over the weekend, and the brownies they caught for the most part seemed to have spawned, but all the blacks they caught had not, and only one of them had any signs of fanning.

mike sowders told me that there are just now nests showing up in the k-dock area. i still think, that with the water as clear as it is, the abnormally cold winter, the cold spring, cold rains, that there are still many bass, and in particular, many of the bigger ones, are just now moving up or in to spawn.

most of the bass that i am catching are in the 10 to 20 ft. range, and all of the big bass are very close to 20 ft. all of them have been caught on a NuTech 3/8 NuJig and a 1/2 Blitz football jig. i keep fishing back in pockets and coves, but without success. everything is coming off on main channel banks.

bo