Night Time Fishing for Big Bass

[bob 1966]

Hello all.

I love to fish at night. I have been doing it for over 25 years. I'm just wondering if anyone has any new tips that I may not know of. I love to use a very large jitterbug with rattles. I also use a large spinner bait with a single blade. My largest LM bass is 7.9lbs and my largest SM bass is 3.14lbs. I just thought I would put that out there to get the ball rolling. I am retired so I'm home and on the computer most of the time so lets chat.

 

[CGochanour85]

I tie glow sticks to the end or just use bank poles at night. Makes things easier and you can put several poles out in different locations and just check them every 20 minutes, but I'd check your laws before runin the bank poles

 

[bob 1966]

thank you for the info i appreciate it. I'm going to look into the laws here and see if i can do that. I have never tryed it but it sounds ok to me.

 

[TeChris]

Ive fished in my backyard once at night, it was pretty fun/scary because I was by my self. I used a bucktail at first and caught a small bass but snaged a decent sized pleco lol. After a while I switch to a dark top water plug as the sky turned white with clouds. Thats when things got interesting, lots of hits. Some scared the crap out of me because the strikes were right at the waters edge. Oh yea and I surprized my neighbor when she let her dog out to pee, she must of thought I was such a weirdo.

 

[frnchjeep]

I like the Hula Popper for bass fishing after dark.

 

[Kobeclone]

I set bank lines at about 8 oclock and check them every 2-3 hours. You won't catch bass with bank lines though. The only thing you will catch with a bank line though is channel cats, flatheads, big blues, or occasionally if you are unfortunate a huge snapper. That is why if you ever set a bank line make sure to carry a 9 millimeter or another small piston when going to check the lines to shoot any large snappers that may try to rip your throat out.

 

[mbhw]

I set bank lines at about 8 oclock and check them every 2-3 hours. You won't catch bass with bank lines though. The only thing you will catch with a bank line though is channel cats, flatheads, big blues, or occasionally if you are unfortunate a huge snapper. That is why if you ever set a bank line make sure to carry a 9 millimeter or another small piston when going to check the lines to shoot any large snappers that may try to rip your throat out.

OK - a pistol, that makes lots of sense and I'm sure it would endear you to the neighbors.

If you are going to fish a bank pole in the evening, you would need to fish live bait w/ circle hooks, the bass will hook themselves.

 

[duke33]

Welcome, I lost my favorite "Dalton special" last night. I only caught a few bluegills.

 

[voss345]

when im up at my lake house i fish i usually only fish 5am to 9 and 5pm to nine, if it is a really hot day otherwise i will fish all day, if it is hot i snorkel or play gold haha, im not a fan of freshwater night fishing, i would fish buzz baits, poppers, zoom flukes, other subsurface baits with a lot of disruption, and spinner baits

 

[voss345]

I set bank lines at about 8 oclock and check them every 2-3 hours. You won't catch bass with bank lines though. The only thing you will catch with a bank line though is channel cats, flatheads, big blues, or occasionally if you are unfortunate a huge snapper. That is why if you ever set a bank line make sure to carry a 9 millimeter or another small piston when going to check the lines to shoot any large snappers that may try to rip your throat out.

im against this idea because usually the bass will hook themselves in the gullet. I hate when that happens, unless you plan on keeping bass, which im also against . I would keep all lines relatively close and use glow sticks or a small led to note you of strikes