Night fishing for bass question
As I said in a previous post , I use lights at night on my boat when fishing for bass on lake Cumberland. With th black light I can see my line ok but not much on the bank. When I use the green light I see the bank much better but worry that the green light may spook the bass.
any opinions as to whether the green light spooks the bass???
Don't LM bass sleep at night?
When I use to scuba dive at night the bass were always found sleeping. Our underwater lights would wake them up and then they would swim away. We found them tucked into the submerged weed line. The weed grew down to a depth of about 12 ft. and then stopped growing as the bottom dropped off. This was in the pits up in Linton, IN. The water was warm in the summer months and very clear in the pit we dove in that night. Most all the bass we saw were right along the edge of the weed line and when startled by our lights would swim off into the deeper water blackness. Our underwater light was the only thing that we could see. But I guess not all LM bass are sleeping at the same time if you were catching them in the darkness. Maybe you were catching the 3rd shift LM bass and the 1st shift bass that I saw were sleeping after working hard all day long. :)
Figuring out how far away the bank is
The hardest part of night fishing along the bank if seeing how far away the bank is. The bank looks farther away at night than it is and I ended up throwing my baits on the bank more than I wanted.
I remember going duck hunting years ago. We would get up at 3 am and be on the water an hour or so before daylight. I set up the decoys where I figured they would be about 40 yard out from the blind. When the sun came up I found the decoys were much closer to the blind. Things look different in the dark.
I found trying to cast baits at night was more difficult. If I had to do it over again. I would use a weed less setup. A worm with the hook buried into the plastic worm making it easy to retrieve.