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Please re-read, never said the bite died.

The eyes of a bass go through a night adaptation cycle beginning at twilight and are usually adapted for black, white, and all shades of gray within an hour after darkness.

@papajoe222 Dead on I seen some really good boat operators get turn around once the sun sets. I keep a water proof box in my y boat with various items in it including a compass.

Ya gotta pick & choose your battles, what cellphone I use ain't one of em!

The first sentence...We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

@MN Fisher My wife retired after 35 yrs with Ma Bell. @Mike L I purposely leave home without my phone, I don't go to the bathroom with it, & I certainly don't sleep with it.

Can't stand anything made by Apple, never have, never will. My cell phone provider is Straight Talk®, I have better ccoverage than any of the big name companies. During hurricane Laura I had coverage everywhere while my wife & kids could only play games on their I-phone.

Happy 4th y'all 😉

I'm with @Pat Brown on this one!

Darkness covers up an angler's presence and most of all his mistakes.

Around late May through August I use a short stroke for both Jig-n-Craws & Texas Rigs. Once the lure settles to the bottom I will stroke 2-3 times in a fairly rapid succession. The height of the stroke depends on the depth of the water. Jig weights 1/4, 3/8, or 1/2 oz. Texas Rig weights 3/16, 1/4, or 3/8 oz. My thought process is a spooked crawfish flips it's tail 3-4 times propelling its self upwards & horizontally. During winter I'll move up to a 3/4 or 1 oz jig. I target standing visible timber from 4'-8' of water. I pitch the jig at the tree letting free fall to the base, then violently rip it up once. If no bite move on to the next tree.

Of the double digits I've caught on Toledo Bend not a single one was turned in to the ShareLunker Program or Toledo Bend Lunker Program. Matter of fact I've turned none of the 35 in. Why Almost all were caught in a Jon boat with no livewell.

@Skunkmaster-k Most of the time there's no one on the lake but me & a couple other crazies, not even a Game Warden. If you have good night vision & there's enough ambient light you will be surprised at well you can see. Where's @A-Jay!

Lighting on the boat is determined by Wildlife and Fisheries. On Toledo Bend your stern light is to stay on. Most generally I turn all mine off until I hear a boat engine in the distance. I turn the stern light on first & if the boat is headed towards me its all lights on. I carry a Brinkman Max Million III Q-beam for changing locations. I usually have a cap light attached to my hat for removing hooks, reting, ect. Try to stay as dark as possible. I fish the same structure, the same cover, with the same techniques as I do during the daytime.

Watch Todd Driscoll of Texas Parks and Wildlife interviewed about the study on Ken Smith Fishing on YouTube. Look under Playlist, there's 18 videos giving us the whole study.

Must be mental cause GP is my worst color.

We call it Watermelon Neon & dip the tail in Dip-N-Glo Chartreuse Garlic. I have that color in every plastic I own.

Doing the least I can get away with!

Every 2 or 3 weeks under normal use.

I throw Speed Craws a lot, I buy em by the 100. My average is probably 2-3 pre lure. There will be times its only 1 & there will be times its more. Oh by the way if it ain't ElaZtech that's pretty much every manufacturer's average.

I'll say it again, you can have lures in your tackle box or fish in the livewell, ya can't have both. Speed Craws come 12 to a sack for about 5 bucks, if each one catches a bass that's .42 cents per bass. I'll take that 😉

Second best: master of plan B

Best: fishing structure & fishing grass Worst: crankbaits, I know how productive they are, just don't throw em.

As a structure fisherman we're trying to get a 3D image of what's below the surface. Down imaging, side imaging, & foward facing sonar gives me that image I want. 55 years on Toledo Bend I got a way point or two. Before side imaging & foward facing sonar I had two choices to locate the bass. One I had to idle over them which has been proven to Spook a percentage. Two I had to use the fish finder tied to my rod. Now I can locate em from a distance. Now I will address Josh Jones, yes he is an outstanding big fish guy. But I hate to burst y'all's bubble but we've had those guys around for years.