After Dark Bass Fishing Tips

People hear about night fishing for bass, but they aren't sure if it will be productive in their particular lake, river, or pond. Chances are it will be more than "productive"; it will more likely than not be the best fishing of your life, if you follow some simple laws of night fishing.

First law- Don't use live bait. You will have the worst night of your life (unless you have located fish first that will feed on bait). At night, you want to use crankbaits with rattles. Not huge crankbaits, but about 3-5 inches with a medium sized bill. You want to be able to hit the bottom or be right above the bottom with these crankbaits. You need to make noise below the surface and a rattling crankbait is the best way to do it. The fish will come to it, and they will come with a reckless attitude.

Second law of night fishing- Do not use a top water lure. Top water baits will not catch you as many fish as crankbaits. The number of fish that end up attacking a surface lure at night pales in comparison to what you can catch below the surface with a crank bait. To illustrate this point, think about how much surface activity you hear at night above the water. Probably not much right? That is because all of those fish are feeding below the surface. You may be reading this and saying to yourself, but wait a second, I go topwater night fishing , and catch 3 or 4 big bass every time I go out, this guy has no idea what he is talking about.

Well, I guarantee that if you switched to crankbaits, in that same area, you would catch 3 times as many fish, if you use a proper lure. Fish just don't like to come to the surface at night, and if they do, they will miss the bait all night long.

Third law of night fishing for bass: Take a headlamp and move around, do not stand in one spot and cast for three hours. The fish are on the move, and you need to be as well to find them and catch tons of them. The best spot to start night fishing is any huge point you can find. A triangle that juts out from shore, points with deep drops on either side, or both, are the best places to catch huge bass. If you can find points that are huge and shallow, you will be in fish heaven. You don't want to fish places that gradually get deeper, like a swimming beach, you want the water to plugne off shallow points. The bass move up out of deep water and onto the shallow point at night, and they will smash your bass crankbait all night long.

Another excellent place to find tons of bass at night is stream mouths. The shallow water provides excellent ambush places for huge bass. In summation, for night fishing success, you need to follow three laws:no live bait , use bass crankbaits, no top water lures, and you must move. Follow these steps and you will be the most successful bass fisherman in your state. And if you want to be even more successful, never go fishing during the day again in your life, invest in some night vision binoculars, and stay out of the sun. Only small fish feed during the day.

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