Night fly fishing

[Phil Lilley]

Boated to the Narrows this morning. Was fishing by 4:30 am. Tried skating a mouse. No takes. Went to my go-to night fly, the blood leech. Caught 19 rainbows before 7 am between 11 and 17 inches. Lots of misses. Moon was bright but not bad. 

They all fought hard and we’re in great condition.  Fat

[Flysmallie]

31 minutes ago, Phil Lilley said:

Tried skating a mouse.

 

Well that wasn't a good thought to put in my head. One of my favorite things to do is skate a gurgler for smallmouth. Now I have to go deal with this. 

 

That's a nice fish. 

[Ham]

Are bats ever an issue ? 
I think at some point, you're gonna snag a bat.

[tjm]

2 hours ago, Ham said:

Are bats ever an issue ? 
I think at some point, you're gonna snag a bat.

I never have and I used to fish where they were all around me, could hear the wing beats. I always thought that I'd get one eventually but they can turn very short and seem to know fly lines are dangerous or at least not unoccupied airspace.  I like evenings after dark better than mornings.

[Phil Lilley]

No bats.  Three different times, ppl set their car alarms off before going to work... very early.  Bet the neighbors loved it.

[snagged in outlet 3]

3 minutes ago, Phil Lilley said:

No bats.  Three different times, ppl set their car alarms off before going to work... very early.  Bet the neighbors loved it.

I did that about a month ago.  Bumped the fob in my pocket at 4:45 on a Saturday.  My wife was not happy.  
I snagged a blue heron in my back cast  in the dark once.  He was about as happy as my wife😂

[fishinwrench]

Bats will home on on your fly, and have no trouble catching it mid-cast.   I had it happen once in broad daylight. Luckily he hit the water, broke my tippet, and was able to fly away.  I say luckily because I had no intentions on carefully unhooking him.  

[snagged in outlet 3]

I get all freaked out in the dark fishing sometimes.  Herons  fly around at night and what one accidentally skewers my through my noggin?!?!

it could happen.....

[FishnDave]

I fished this Tricolored Bat out of the river while wading/flyfishing for smallmouth bass in Iowa.  I'm not sure if his getting dunked in the first place was due to me or not.  Cute little guy...

[fishinwrench]

1 hour ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

I get all freaked out in the dark fishing sometimes.  Herons  fly around at night and what one accidentally skewers my through my noggin?!?!

it could happen.....

Darn right it could!   You should probably wear that goofy bicycle helmet or something.  

I get freaked out too.  When the sun goes down everything on the ground looks like a spider, and everything in the trees looks like monkeys.  Flashlights just make it worse. There's no safe space.