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Is tonight... the night?

Deitz Dittrich

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Deitz Dittrich Grand Master

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I have never fished for bass after dark.. they do it down south all the time... I have been waiting for a day.. Well it was too darn hot to fish today in my opinion(I HATE HOT).. winds 5-10, 80% full moon?... I already checked to make sure my lights worked on the boat...

Wish me luck!

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I have found that smallmouth do bite well at dusk but never tried after dark. I have of course got walleyes and crappie after dark and surprisingly got into sunfish and Pike.

I know that the guys on Vermillion fish Muskys after dark and do very well on the big fish.

I am curious as to see your results as well.

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The plan is to try and hit the sun down bite and fish till about 3am?... I will deffinatly report what happens.. I have some top waters tied on(popr baits, and buzz baits).. and Jig and pig.. and spinnerbaits.. that my starting plan... I cant believe how pumped I am... I too have fished walleye after dark... but never bass...

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Ok... as you can see by the time I have posted... its 11:45 and I didn't make it till 2-3 like I had hoped.. but I did learn a few important things...

#1-to go night fishing it may be best to choose a night in which its slightly cooler.. so that you can wear long sleeves.. that way the bugs cant get you as well.. I had a 3rd layer of skin called bug spray..and I didn't get bit much.. but they enjoyed walking on me.. which "buged" me.

#2 That just because the internet says its 80% full moon, its probably equally if not more important to know that the "moon"that is 80% full is on your side of the dang earth...When you can no longer see your shoes, and you hope your casts hit water, you know its dark.

I did catch 3 fish.. but all before 10pm and I could still see.. they were all caught well after sunset, but again.. I could still see. None caught after that.

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That sux,

My personal best outing for bass was at night about 5 years ago, I fish bass a few times a year specifically at night, especially on hot days like we have been having, anyway, a buddy and I were fishing a local lake and were picking up a few here and there and then all of a sudden about 1:00 am we hit a stretch of shoreline where seemingly every cast we boated a bass, we fished till the sun came up and lost count of how many bass we caught, at least 100 though no lie. We have been back there since under similar conditons and have yet to repeat that night on the water, we always get fish and good numbers, but not like that. We were using Strike King midnight specials, by far the most productive bass lure I have found for night fishing. It sure is nice and peacful out there though, and the bugs seem to dissapear about 2:00 am typically.

Try agian, you never know.

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ohh, I plan on trying again.. just maybe be a little more prepared... and I have another thing I rememberd I needed to change.

#3, normally I wear contacts, but I figgured no need at night because I cant wear my sunglasses anyway.. DUH...but the glare on my glasses(vision galsses,not sunglasses) from the bow/stern lights was so bad... very bad!

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Deitz, Deitz, Deitz. grin.gif

After a few nights like last night your body adjusts and an immunity sets in on the skeets........well..... not really. smirk.gif

Yes, the night deal is whole different ball game, but I'm actually to the point where I almost prefer to be out after dark.

You really should have stuck it out, the moon came up just about midnight and lit things up nicely (well maybe too nicely for us cat folk). But I bet from about midnight to 2 there was a monster bucketmouth topwater bite going on wink.gif

Looks like another steamy one tonight.

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We are going to see Deitz all decked out in about a week here, he'll have all the toys. That black light stuff mounted on his boat, the line that shows up under the black light as well as hooks and lures, he'll have the head mounted flashlight as well as other lights, yea just wait, he'll be a pro night fisherman in about 3 days.

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We are going to see Deitz all decked out in about a week here, he'll have all the toys. That black light stuff mounted on his boat, the line that shows up under the black light as well as hooks and lures, he'll have the head mounted flashlight as well as other lights, yea just wait, he'll be a pro night fisherman in about 3 days.

exactly!

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You guys are far too kind, .. However, I will get a littel better set up.. I do belive there is a night bite.. there were smaller fish(I assumed sunfish, but no way of knowing) that were on the surface feeding much of the night I was out. I through topwaters trying to get a larger fish(I didn't care what it was) to no avail....

I think a black light may be my next buy...

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You guys are far too kind, .. However, I will get a littel better set up.. I do belive there is a night bite.. there were smaller fish(I assumed sunfish, but no way of knowing) that were on the surface feeding much of the night I was out. I through topwaters trying to get a larger fish(I didn't care what it was) to no avail....

I think a black light may be my next buy...

you should get the black light that can be strapped around your head too so you can see what your doing. I know REI sells them

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After a few nights like last night your body adjusts and an immunity sets in on the skeets........well..... not really.

Dtro it is funny you bring that up because it can actually happen. i worked at a Sewage treatment plant for about 4 year and every summer the skeets were mobbing as one can imagine however by about August 1 my body didn't get itchies any more don't know if this is just me or if anyone else had this happen? ike

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