What's Your Most Productive Time Of day? 2025
Bass_Akwards reply :
Theese two questions are for everyone, but the amount of different times you fish during the day, year 'round, the more informative your answer will be.
Also, I know this answer can change lake to lake season to season, so I ask this generally.
1. Over the years, on the lake you fish most, generally, what's been the time of day when you catch the most bass? Not the biggest bass, but the MOST bass?
I don't need exact times of day but slight specifics would help.
For example, before sunrise? Sunrise to when it starts getting light out? 10am-3pm? Dusk? After dark? Also...
2. What's been your most productive technique at that time? For example, if "Dusk" is your answer, are you catching most of your bass fishing isolated cover in shallow water with a buzzbait? If "high noon" is your answer are you structure fishing jigs in deep water?
roadwarrior reply :
10:00 AM to 2:00PM
8-)
Dock Master reply :
From about 6:00 am or 7:00 till about lunch time.
fishfordollars reply :
Mid day from about 10:00 to 2:00ish with a jig or some other plastic.
Except summertime, then it is at night.
JigMe reply :
8:00am-10:00am;5:00pm-7:00pm
Lund Explorer reply :
For numbers, I'd say from the first hint of sunrise for three hours afterwards.
Baits vary quite a bit, but usually start with a topwater or spinnerbait. End up the morning switching back and forth between a combo of soft plastics or jigs.
Note to self.... I've got to start fishing more cranks.
florida strain reply :
8:00am- 10:00 am, expecialy if its close to major-minor..topwater and 10in. worm
RichF reply :
9am to 11am
Beastie Bass reply :
10am-2pm 
basskatcher() reply :
Early morning 6AM - 9AM. I call it PRIMETIME.
DINK WHISPERER reply :
Most of the time from about 7:00am - noon. For size from about noon to 2:00pm.
dday07 reply :
when light just begins to show till 8am or so
bass or bass ? reply :
Dusk to dawn.
tnbassfisher reply :
Late afternoon.
Fish Chris reply :
I've caught the vast majority of my big bass between 10 am and 2 pm, but to narrow it even tighter, I call the hour from noon until 1pm, the magic hour 
I try to always be on my best, big fish spots, around then.
Peace
Fish
Doh ! I think "BIG Bass" so automatically, that I didn't notice where you specifically asked about numbers, and not big ones.
Hmmmm. It's been a /really/ long time since I went out even trying for numbers.... But I guess back in the day, I used to do pretty well early in the morning, and late in the evening.
senko_77 reply :
6am - 8am. For some reason, I always catch my biggest fish of the day early in the morning, year round. My 2 most productive techniques for early morning have been a fluke and a buzzbait.
rat-l-trapper reply :
I usually catch more fish in the middle of the day, from about 11 to 3. In the late summer/fall the last two hours before dark is really good too.
iceintheveins reply :
I would say in the late spring through mid fall the period before sun rise to about 10:00 am is the best, but the evening is pretty good too. Only at certain times of the year is the midday bite here in Colorado that good, but during pre spawn through early post spawn it is quite good, but can be awesome in the mid summer if a storm is moving in and it's cloudy. A common scenario for me is to catch five or six bass in the morning, maybe 1 or 2 in the afternoons, and five or six more in the evening.
Chris reply :
day-11am-2pm night-11pm-3am
jdw174 reply :
I normally begin at first light. For numbers of fish, it's from then until the sunlight hits the water, although I keep fishing the shady portions until the sun is directly overhead. My biggest fish have come between 10am-2pm. I've also done very well from just after supper until dark.
detroit1 reply :
4 to 8 pm.
kms399 reply :
5 am till 7. I would go earlier but the launch doesn't open till 5. usually start with a rapala x-walk13 or a buzz bait then switch over to a spinnerbait or shallow crank.
zero limit reply :
10 am-2pm is by far the best time for numbers.
timothy_spain reply :
summertime 7pm - 8pm .. .that one hour windows yield many catches on a black & blue plastic worm t-rigged
Bryce C reply :
Mid day always seems to produce the biggest fish of any trip for me.
wannabeangler reply :
Just before the sun breaks over the trees at sunrise until a couple hours after (spring through fall). And then about 1.5 hrs before sunset until the sun sets. My game dies the minute the sun is completely gone. Usually topwater i.e. buzzbait, frog or popper tossed in, on and around shallow grass flats (3 feet of water or less).
In the summer, same times plus anytime not high noon. I toss frogs on the shady side of every grass matt and right against (or on) the shore or weightless worms on the shade side of stick-ups. I love seeing a frog explode on landing when it's 95 degrees in mid-July!
brgbassmaster reply :
morning
BrianSnat reply :
7 pm to about 11 pm. Usually using poppers, Zara spooks or jitterbugs.
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