11 hours ago, WhatJustHappened said:

This is something I miss a lot, I fished FW at night many times a summer when I was younger, fishing mostly Hulas and Jitterbugs. Never even considered Worms/Jigs, I fished 9" Mann's jelly worms the  most during the day(I still think as good as any)

Was catching pretty decent fish using the aforementioned lures.

Guess I was missing out not trying bottom.

 

Thanks 

IME, if they'll eat it during the day,

they'll eat it at night.

Often under the same type of conditions.

A-Jay

I fished Chunk Mackerel at night for stripers and bluefish, I don't believe I have ever tried my bottom baits at night for LM/SMB.

I'LL remember that, but I haven't fished at night in FW for awhile, and I don't suspect I will anytime soon(an old friend liked that)...maybe up the street at Sabbathia sometime this year.

 

Thanks for the info.

At night, the hope is always that they will rise for topwater or at least take a big colorado fairly high in the column. If those don't work, BC with larger ribbontails sometimes plays well.

I was bass fishing while waiting for trout bite and I tried everything for 11 yours and god knows how many casts, I tried everything bottom and middle and top and try different lure for each section, Speed fishing and slow fishing and dead sticking, NOTHING WORKS 🤣. Oh man I love bass fishing, I would never forget that night. that's a short clip of conditions , Milk chocolate water and fog that you even couldn't see the water and wind and cold and ETC...

 

https://youtu.be/Pj9QhzaVSko

 Man I love bass fishing at night. I've been doing it for years. I've been doing it since hell. I was a teenager. But I do it mostly nowadays just because I got a son I'm raising and you know it just doesn't always work out for me to get out there in the lake whenever. I should be home cooking dinner and stuff. So I go often at night. It also keeps my wife off I disagree. She's jealous of fishing or something I don't know. Explain it but some of you guys out there know what I'm talking about. Anyway, I've caught huge bass too at night and especially at high pressured areas where I know bass are but they're just not going to bite like off. Rip rap on some of these public legs that I fish here in North Texas. Well my home Lake mostly but Lake Ray Hubbard. A little tip that works for me. If I'm struggling to get a bite, a tie on a short weight leader line to my drop shot with a black power worm and or a black OSP Beaver 4 in usually. And those always seem to come in clutch for me. You can free rig the beaver and you can free rig. The worm I wouldn't though though. I would fish a Texas rig with you know whatever size weight you think you need for your condition and or you use the drop shot. Anytime. I really really need to get a bite and I'm having trouble getting a bite at night time I tie on one of those and it's usually money. Now with the beaver it's a little different. I guess you can use a bronco bug but I wouldn't. The texture of the OSP Beaver is so much better. You may not catch as many fish with one, but you'll catch fis©h with them guaranteed. Now I fished that free rig or I like to fish it with a big bite bait shorty head. It's kind of their Ned Head but it is a ewg three\° Hook and it works really well. So I would rig it on that free rig and or works really good with the split shot too . Also, if you're going to be fishing public lakes from the bank at night, do yourself a favor. Wear you some rubber boots like you know things you might spread concrete in or something. You know something that covers your ankles and a little bit of your leg because moskins are out there but there's even other things too. I mean last year I got charged by three rats scared as s*** out of me anyway, it's not as bad as when I was pond hopping as a teenager and got ran into the water by horses. I thought we were coyotes I guess at 3:00 a.m. in the morning.

 

 I hope you guys tear them up 

Darin Ray 

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After them reading the topic last night. I figured I couldn't sleep. Might as well go caught these this morning around 4:00 a.m.. OSP Beaver and jackall archleons at Lake Ray Hubbard. What a blast!