Night bite

[slothman]

Is anyone else having trouble catching the bass after dark? For me it seems to completely shut down at night. I fished all night in a club tournament on Saturday and caught them pretty decently until dark and after sunrise the next morning despite the storming rain, but the bite was virtually non-existent all night long. 

[fishinwrench]

I haven't been out after dark but from what I've heard lately you're not alone.  The catfish guys are even doing much better during mid-day than they are late evenings and after dark.  

[MoCarp]

13 hours ago, slothman said:

Is anyone else having trouble catching the bass after dark? For me it seems to completely shut down at night. I fished all night in a club tournament on Saturday and caught them pretty decently until dark and after sunrise the next morning despite the storming rain, but the bite was virtually non-existent all night long. 

Some times you have to fish extremely shallow for lmb at night, but like anything fish will have times they get tough, slow down a very light weight plastic worm will catch when it’s like that... a rattle bead, a good dose of fish scent....or a bait that just pisses them off like a buzz bait...you can bend a buzz bait to run off the the right or left, let it ping pong off objects like a critter desperate to climb out of the water, big bass will bust that like nothing else some times...

[fshndoug]

I always had good luck fishing the small coves or cuts along the bank with a 3/8 oz black spinnerbait,5 feet of water or less.

[slothman]

Hopefully they will start biting at night better soon. I tried a bit of everything this past weekend. It seemed like sunlight was the factor that made them bite more than anything. 

[conorsixtakc]

should get better once the rain slows down and days get consistently hotter.

[slothman]

I would imagine so. 

[fishinwrench]

I'm not that big on night fishing but I always do at least one all nighter every year during the July full moon period.   

A black/blue 10" Power worm and a buzzbait have been the only 2 rods on the deck the last 3 years.   Always a good time.  

[Old plug]

My  night vision is not to awful good anymore. I confine most of my fishing to the times between 6pm and pink up. We  caught a lot of shorts( 13+ to 14+) a few dinks and one 4 lbs. in the past few days just fishing those short evening hours. Given my druthers I am a low light fisherman. I miss the night stuff a little but I have had had many many chasing the shade trips as good as night trips.   

 

 

[96 CHAMP]

Nothing better than spending the night out night fishing, peace and quiet and good fish, problem is changing my time pattern over from working hours, need about 3-4 days to adjust, getting older isn't for sissy's. LOL