Sorry the reply took a while. I was going to reply yesterday morning when I saw your post but decided to get straight out fishing as I only had a couple of hours before work. Good decision actually, I went to the only pond I fish in that isn't a farm pond. Its next to the river and in flood becomes part of the river. I started out throwing a rubber jig with a rubber 'worm' actually I dont know what its called but its like a grub with two legs and does a nice frog imitation. Throwing it into the deep spots with lots of weed cover and wham,  raigyou,  in English 'snake head' (??) first one I've landed, though I caught a real big one in the same pond before that broke me off on my light rig.  This time I was using my heavier bait rig and managed to haul it up on the shore but man, these things hit hard and fight like all hell. After that  I tried the shallow area with a top water pencil bait (heddon) and wham, this time it was a bass, my biggest ever at 53cm, I was stoked. Guess where I'm going today  

Thats interesting about catching the chinu with tube baits. I guess they're immitating  baby squid? I noticed in the latest Salt and Stream mag there's an article about targetting chinu with minnows but it seems a bit strange to me, theyre not real 'fish eater' fish.

No, I've had no problem night fishing for bass. Some locals might check out what you're up to but thats probably because they think you're dumping your trash or something, when they see you're fishing I doubt anyone will care. I fish anytime between dusk and 1 or 2 in the morning. try casting small worms around the edges before using the bigger stuff. As I said before the jig head spinner bait is my most productive night bait  but your mileage will no doubt vary. And of course be careful with aggressive casting, its real easy to misjudge the distance at night, as I've discovered quite a few times. I use a head torch but try to use it as little as possible, to change a lure I move away from the water and face the other direction so as not to spook the fish. Tell us how you go.      

WOW a snake head, ive seen them but never caught one, a little scary looking, then a 53 cm bass, congratulations!!!!!!!!!  I hope that spot is less known so you get to hit it often!  

Ive often tried topwaters, a torpedo, spook puppy, and most recently the new Shimano, triple action, i havent got any hits yet.  i tried early and late, open water near cover, and over weeds??????????  No action.  any suggenstions...  nice to heear youre landing excellent fish.  have you taken any pictures?

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