What You Might Not Know About
Lake Bass At Night
Since fishing for big Bass in lakes is such a popular fishing excursion,
I decided to include a special section just for you. These come
straight from the mouths of the most successful Bass fishermen I
know.
1. When the summer heat is cranked up, bass everywhere transform
into nighttime predators and can be exploited by anglers who choose
to fish at night.
2. Fishing for bass in water that is at least 65 degrees will bring
you the best success.
3. Make sure to fish in spots where there has been success in the
past. Bass do not tend to move around much
4. Bass will move deeper at night as the summer moves on, so your
fishing will be more successful within a 20-foot zone.
5. Fish in spots with deep water access, shallow shorelines close
to weed beds in lakes, underwater roadbeds in reservoirs, gavel
or rock beds where crawfish are abundant, or lighted boat docks.
During hot-weather conditions, the bass will sometimes avoid shallow
water structure and congregate in the deep water of these key areas
throughout the night.
6. Make sure to try rattle traps (if you haven’t already).
They are the best lures to locate bass year round, in my opinion.
I have never seen bait that can get Bass to strike in 46 degree
water like rattle traps can!
7. Carolina rigging small soft-plastic baits will produce well
on submerged islands and offshore humps. A wide variety of 4-inch
lizards and crawfish will drive largemouth and small-mouth bass
crazy. The fish aggressively inhale small green/black crawfish.
8. A hair jig rigged with No.11 pork chunk and spider jigs are
great baits to use when fishing main lake points and secondary points.
These baits directly mimic small crayfish that also move onto the
points to feed after dark. The pork chunk on the hair jig and the
long plastic legs of the spider jig produce a lifelike action and
resemble the pinchers of the crayfish that inhabit rocky points.
Without a doubt, crayfish are at the top of the bass menu and these
baits can be killers.
It is best to maintain contact with the bottom and then use your
rod tip more than your reel while fishing these jigs. Slowly dragging
the jigs across the shallow points into deeper water is sometimes
all it takes to get your arm broken by a hungry smallmouth or largemouth
bass.
9. In extremely hot weather conditions the bass will sometimes
avoid shallow water structures all together and will congregate
in deeper water throughout the night. In these situations, you can
usually find numbers of bass around deep river channel banks that
offer a transition between rock and clay structure. Banks that encompass
rocky bluffs that drop off into deep water will also hold fish during
periods of hot weather and seem to be preferred haunts of trophy
class smallmouth bass.
