Night Temperatures and Moon Phase

[Bonefish]

I posted on this subject earlier but I think it got lost in the new board change over so I will try again. Through the years I have made some observations concerning night fishing. It seems water temperatures between 55 and 75 degrees is the most active range for big bass to become active. This range of temperature will dictate at what times of the night one should fish depending upon the season. For example, in the spring and fall a hour before dark to midnight may be the best, and in the summer from midnight to 4 a.m. may be the best because the water temperature will have time to cool down. Another observation is no matter the moon phase, shaddows are most important. In other words, you should make note of shaddow patterns on your favorite fishing spots during any particular moon phase at the desirable temperature range during the season you are fishing. Big bass use shaddows to hide in order to ambush prey. Another observtion is big bass stay in deeper water and only come to shore when nights are dark, stormy, cloudy and/or windy. Big bass suspend over humps, rock piles, and along ledges in 10 to 25 feet of water, especially if they have logs and stumps. In the fall when water temperatures are between 55 and 65 degrees, big bass go into binge feeding at night and you have to carefully monitor temperatures to catch this binge feeding period. Weather patterns from year to year will dictate the length of time of this binge period.

[Danny]

Bonefish,

I did a search for all posts that had the author of Bonefish, and I found your original post. You had 6 replies. Here's the URL if you want to read them:

http://www.fishin.com/dc/dcboard.php...ng_type=search

Good luck...


Tight lines and God Bless

Danny

[Bonefish]

Thanks, Danny! I found it.