Youll definetly find out how big the bass in the lake are if you night fish. One time i was fishing and saw a huge commotion and thought it was a huge school of fish and i kept casting to no avail and when i walked over i saw it was a pack of muskrats! I had fished that lake my entire life and never saw one. And always check your surroundings because like others said snakes come out at night.

I do fish quite a bit at night - it's just very cool - the whole experience.

 

But I do not fish from the bank.

 

I've seen a couple of the "maker of the tracks" in and around the boat ramps so . . .

 

A-Jay

 

 

 

I do a ton of bank fishing in the dark during late summer, black & blue Chatterbaits, single colorado blade spinnerbaits, jitterbugs, & dark colored soft plastics have all produced some big bass for me.

If alone and bank fishing at night, my mind plays to many ticks on me, I suddenly envision 100's of snakes crawling everywhere.

That be awesome, you don't have many Venomous species in OK, especially ones that love water, copperheads mainly nocturnal during the hot nights, however western cottonmouths are nocturnal, just use a flash light and watch your step you will be fine.

Alright all these good stories about bigguns biting at night have me ready to try it this year, maybe on a warm full moon i'll give it a try.

You really should give it a try Trap. I actually fish the pond outside of work when I get off late. It is extremely weedy, so I only bring ribbit frogs and hollow body frogs/mice. I don't have enough open water to run a buzzbait or gunfish, even if I wanted to.

Think a topwater bite during the day will surprise you? Try it during a quiet night!

You guys have me convinced at Top Water bite!

 

Sweet, my old man has some docks on his ponds i feel a little safer up there, just hope the coyotes dont decide to come and inspect me lol

 

maybe ill invest in a little lighting to bring with me as well.

You guys have me convinced at Top Water bite!

Sweet, my old man has some docks on his ponds i feel a little safer up there, just hope the coyotes dont decide to come and inspect me lol

maybe ill invest in a little lighting to bring with me as well.

If coyotes get near you, consider yourself lucky. I hunt them and it's hard enough to get a shot on one in full camo with a call!

It's a lot of fun. Colorado blade spinnerbaits, chatterbaits, big curly tails or loud plastics, even paddle tails all work very well.

Get you some this summer!

I picked up a tackle box at the local pawn shop filled with jitterbugs, torpedoes, and poppers this fall. In with the jitterbugs was one with a glow in the dark paint job. Anyone ever use one? I'm like to think it'll catch fish but I'm honestly not really sure. Either way it's going to be the first lure I tie on come the first summer night I get to go out.

This was always my cup of tea growing up. Especially the golf course ponds. I caught all of my biggest bass (except for my PB) at night. I've always been about finesse, so throwing a t-rigged ribbontail, wacky-rigged Zoom Trick Worm, or a Junebug colored Shakyhead worm produced results. A dark spinnerbait or chatterbait can really tear them up at night, also! To this day, I prefer night fishing over daytime fishing, especially in Texas, where the temps/humidity get so horrid.

Never caught one at night, but is it as much fun fighting and pulling the fish in if you cannot see in the dark? Part of the fun for me is to watch the line zig zag to the right and left.

 

But I suppose a fish in the dark is better than none at all.

Never caught one at night, but is it as much fun fighting and pulling the fish in if you cannot see in the dark? Part of the fun for me is to watch the line zig zag to the right and left.

 

But I suppose a fish in the dark is better than none at all.

Its a different experience, depending on how you light the night you can still see fairly well.  I have fished in pitch black I still had fun and I didn't know what I had until the bass was in my hands, although it was a bass pond so I kinda knew hehe..  I have fly fished in the dark, under moon light and it was a blast, if you have not tried it I would say its worth at least a try, especially top water action, talk about fun.

I usually fish this fair sized pond around where I live at night and I've had great success throwing rattling square-bill cranks, a black spinnerbait with a large number 5 Colorado balde, the Rattlin Romba bait (if you do not own one of these I highly recommend them for night, submerged grass, lily pads, and overhanging trees), floating frogs, and large black worms of various types. The baits are very productive in the dark water that I fish and I've had many explosive bites throwing around the lily pads and laydowns that scatter the place. One night in particular I remember catching two five pounders of my own and one of my friends pulled in his personal best of six pounds on a rattling square-bill. I recently purchased some floating snakes from the bog baits website and will throw these in the summer this season and will hopefully break my personal record of about eight and three quarter pounds because the large bog baits have a good reputation for catching lunkers.  

Black booyah clacker buzzbait! The bass can't resist!