You know you never have a clean, a neat tackle box to the point you can find what your looking for without pulling up six lures together until you fish in the dark. Trust me if you haven't fished at night in the dark yet your tackle box isn't neat yet.

My point is when cleaning and setting up your tackle box the best thing we can do is to think about "night fishing" only then you will sort everything out so each bait is easy to remove from its spot and use. Once you get into the habit of removing and replacing it to its spot you will keep it neat.

I thought I was a neat person with my tackle arrangement in my tackle box until I went night fishing. Using a one battery flash lite it was so hard to pick up he lure without no other lures attached to it. I was shocked on how messy I was.

I have all my topwater baits in one tackle box, all my cranks in another box. One more box for seedless lures. Plus all my assorted carolina rigs are pre made up in plastic zip lock bags. I have 24" adjustable leaders using the Carolina keepers with different weights in each bag with a hook. These are in the bottom of my tackle box. I keep a plastic bag of assorted hooks too. I use a locking snap swivel to attach the pre hooked plastics to my c-rig. This saves trying to tie knots. I have pre hooked plastics also in bags. This way I spend more time fishing than trying to install a hook in a plastic bait correctly in the dark. It saves time to have everything pre ready.

I just turned 64yo and trying to tie knots in the daytime kills me. This clear line is so hard to see. I always bring extra rod setups when night fishing too.

If one gets tangled or I need to tie a new snap swivel on in the dark I park it till I get home to save time I use the extra rod.

I fish from dark till dawn non stop to catch these big gals near the shoreline before they move to deeper cover. Our fishing time is limited. I don't waste it fixing tackle or looking for a lure. We need to be as fast as the nascar pit stop guys when picking and changing baits.

The game changes when fishing at night. That little flash lite that can be clipped on your hat brim can also be clipped on your tackle box too. I carry two small flashlights in every tackle box. Even my backup has backup.

Failure is not an option. I make sure a fishing trip doesn't get ruined. At my age each minute fishing matters, I make sure each minute counts.

I keep it even simpler..2 rods 2 black jitterbugs. Headlamp and 6 extra jitterbugs been doin it like that in the dark about 20 yrs.

I'll usually have 3 rods with me, 2 stay in the car just about always.  First stop is 4-5 am, with rod #1, stop 2 at dawn rod #2 comes out, I may never get to rod #3.  I use the same lures for each rod, my lure of choice is decided when I get there, depending on what the water and wind looks like.  I'll fish with one lure, don't change often or at all, have 2-3 backups with me, I don't have a tackle bag.

At night I have a jitterbug and a buzzbait tied on. Don't bring anything else except for coffee.

I'm out early in the morning while it's still dark well before the birds start chirping and the roosters crow. I fish from dark to twilight to dawn to 9am.if I last that long so my baits get changed from night topwater baits, to twilight shallow & deeper cranks baits(channel), to the dawn baits I use as the bass go to there deeper haunts I follow them with a Carolina rig or deeper cranks. I do notice the pattern can change quickly sometimes. I don't panic I just change baits very quickly till the action picks up again. In the dark There like a captured crowd and I need to figure out what there going to eat. As it gets lighter there starting to get ansy looking for the exit sign. Fishing from shore the timing is very important on what bait were throwing from dark to Sun up.