Most Night Bites Go Unnoticed When
Night Fishing How To Sense Them!
Did you know that many bites from the big boys go completely unnoticed?
Sometimes the smallest tug brings up the biggest fish (in my experience).
Here are some proven methods to increase your sensitivity to these
subtle big game bites.
1. Braided line saves a lot of retying of frayed line and its sensitivity
makes subtle bites easier to detect.
2. Wearing a headlight for focused light is recommended. When you
have a bite on, you need to put that focused light on your rod tip
to help you. If you are fishing deep, when the bite is on, the rod
tip will barely move because the fish is swimming out, not down.
If it swims up, the rod will slacken – in either case it will
be hard to tell unless you have some light on that rod tip.
3. Equipping your reels with fluorescent monofilament line will
dramatically increase your catch ratio. Use it in combination with
a black light so that you can detect subtle strikes in total darkness.
By the way, a black light is probably one of the most important
pieces of night fishing gear. It will make fluorescent monofilament
line glow like a laser beam across the dark water and will allow
anglers to detect subtle strikes that would ordinarily go unnoticed.
4. Attach a tip light to your rod so that you can easily see any
bites and that your rod is actually still standing up and hasn't
been washed down by the incoming tide.
