What do you use in the dark? 2025
Pickle_Power reply :
I have quite a few opportunities to get out from about 4 am - 6 am. I am very familiar with fishing at dawn/first light.
I haven't done much bass fishing in the dark.
What do you use when it's pitch black out there, and how do you work it? I will be fishing on shore.
YoTone reply :
black chatterbait, black Colorado spinner bait and a black buzzbait has worked for me this year at night. the chatterbait caught me the biggest of the three.
Pickle_Power reply :
On 7/12/2018 at 8:46 PM, YoTone said:black chatterbait, black Colorado spinner bait and a black buzzbait has worked for me this year at night. the chatterbait caught me the biggest of the three.
Some of my favorites anyway. ????
Gundog reply :
My answer would be the same baits I use during the day. Literally the same baits used the same way. Willow leaf spinner baits with a steady retrieve, twin-tailed grubs on 3/8 ounce heads around rocks and crankbaits in deeper water. For me nothing changes in the bait, color or presentation.
Brett's_daddy reply :
A flashlight 
Bass_Fishing_Socal reply :
+1 on chatterbait, also early AM is a golden time for any topwater, WP, buzzbait, pop-R you name it. I like the one that make noise but can be retrieve slowly. You don't even have to cast out far just along the bank should do it.
I caught this one a few night ago (1:00AM) about 5' from shore using chatterbait white on white grub.
Raul reply :
Spinnerbait
Lipless crankbait
Chatterbait
Jitterbug ......
He'll, scratch the others, Jitterbug and more Jitterbug !
Pickle_Power reply :
Thanks for helping me game plan. I'll be reporting back!
scaleface reply :
Buzzbait is number 1 .Also use Strike King Midnight Special , Texas Rigs and crankbaits . A square-bill Rapala Crankin Rap in red craw has worked good . Basically the same lure categories I use during the day .
Boomstick reply :
Dark brown or black baits! Can't go wrong with black and blue coloed colorado spinnerbaits, dark brown or black senkos and black and blue chatterbaits
Choporoz reply :
Like @Gundog, I use the same things that I use during the day.....with one big exception: all trebles get stowed from 1/2 hour past sunset until first light.
Bankbeater reply :
Big black Jitterbug pulled just fast enough to make it gurgle.
scaleface reply :
On 7/13/2018 at 6:33 AM, Bankbeater said:Big black Jitterbug
How big ? Musky size ?
Pickle_Power reply :
My initial thoughts were to use things that "thump". I guess I wasn't too far off.
Glaucus reply :
The exact same things I use in daylight, only in black or blue colors.
Catt reply :
Same baits, same techniques, on the same structure as I do in daylight.
lo n slo reply :
texas rigged plastics
papajoe222 reply :
I'll add a Colorado bladed spinnerbait in place of a willow leaf. Other than that I don't change baits. I'll start out with the faster moving hard baits and switch to jigs and worms if things get tough. The only bait I throw during the day that I don't at night, is a tube jig.
A-Jay reply :
This ~
A-Jay
Dorado reply :
Ned rig is killer at night!
WRB reply :
Casting treble hook lures at night from shore can be a nightmare.
Whatever you use it needs to be weedless or single hook.
Nothing has caught more bass in the dark then Berkleys Power ribbon tail worms, both 7 1/2" & 10" in black w/blue flake, T-rigged with sliding bullet weight. Lots of sift plastics to choose from like Zoom Brush hog etc.
If you can't fish slow then a buzz bait is a good option.
Tom
N Florida Mike reply :
I use a big Dark colored worm. I Don't let it sit as long as I do in the daytime. I reel it about 6 feet or so, let it sink, wait maybe 10 seconds, pick it up, and repeat back to the boat.
2nd choice is a booya pc. Frog.
Also have done well with a devil's horse but Not crazy about the trebles at night either.
Bankbeater reply :
On 7/13/2018 at 7:56 AM, scaleface said:How big ? Musky size ?
The 5/8 ounce size.
scaleface reply :
On 7/14/2018 at 7:18 AM, Bankbeater said:The 5/8 ounce size.
Ok . I'm planning on going tomorrow night at Mark Twain and I'm trying to sharpen those horrible hooks on my vintage wooden Musky Jitterbug . Team Nine and WRB have inspired me and I'm determined to catch one on it this summer .
Pickle_Power reply :
First attempt: Fished from 4:30-5.30. Nothing on buzzbait, Ned rig a no-go(too much grass), one decent fish on black Terminator spinnerbait. Didn't catch it until first light.
I'll keep at it, and probably give a Chatterbait and Jitterbug a try next time.
FishTank reply :
This guy or something like it.
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