Fishing Gem #6 – Listen Up!

When you fish after dark, always be alert for signs of feeding fish. At night your normally hear feeding fish before you see their swirls or splashes. When you hear a fish break surface, chuck your lure to spot as soon as possible. Remember that fish often have trouble locating a lure at night, so make repeated casts to spots you think hold fish.

Fishing Gem #7 – Deep Water Essential

Under deep-water conditions, you should to use a bait-caster in combination with a long graphite rod that has a lot of backbone. This setup will enable you to move a lot of line and will ensure a solid hook set in deeper water. In addition, you should also utilize your black light to carefully watch bow in your line to detect subtle strikes as bait drops. These tactics will produce when fish are holding to a deep-water pattern and most other areas are not producing.

Fishing Gem #8 – It Ain’t All Peaches And Cream On A Boat!

The possible downsides of night fishing are that you need to limit your group socializing and partying; it just won’t work if you want to catch fish. It’s also not recommended for young children, and not for more than 2 to a boat, unless boat is large. If you had to ride out a storm, it would be a bit scarier than in day. If fishing is good (which it usually is at night), be willing to alter your sleep patterns.

Fishing Gem #9 – Lake Fishing Keys To Success

Main lake points offer excellent opportunities to catch fish at night. If action slows down, come back later and you can catch additional fish from exact same point.

Colors ranging from red/black, blue/black, green/black to chartreuse/orange seem to work well on all lakes throughout summer. It is wise to carry a wide assortment of colors, weights, and blade sizes to meet demands of fish.

Main lake points and secondary points are key areas that attract fish at night throughout summer months. Basically, fish are inactive during day due to hot temperatures and will suspend in deep water off of points. However they will move onto points at night to ambush schools of baitfish. These locations are fairly easy to locate and can be fished very quickly allowing you to cover a lot of water in a short period of time.

Fishing Gem #10 – Live-Bait Catching!

Obviously have some bait jigs ready when you need to replenish your stock of live bait on board. For rapid bait catching, Evening Secret is one of best solutions, especially at night.

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When using lures, use ones that can be cast easily. Switch out often to get to different depths, and experiment with speed of retrieve. Use finer-diameter monofilament line because it gives better action to both natural baits and artificial lures.

If you hook a big one, keep it in front of you as you wind it in – running as you need to. As you bring it close, it will make a few runs out – just drop your tip and let it go. When it gets really close, use waves to bring it even closer – timing it.

Fresh Shrimp

When you have live shrimp that you are going to fish, it is important to make sure they are alive and kicking – they will catch more fish this way. Keep them uncrowded, well aerated, and cool.

Use an ice chest as a shrimp box. It has a strong lid that can double as a seat, a plug for easy draining, and is well insulated to help ward off bait-killing heat.

Instead of using ice to keep shrimp cool, freeze water in plastic bottles so that when ice melts it won’t dilute water and kill shrimp. When shrimp is failing to get strikes, use brightly colored shrimp by dying them with food coloring. This will stimulate strikes if regular colored shrimp aren’t working.

Shrimp Bait

Using sand shrimp as bait is an excellent choice because it is a popular meal for bottom feeders. Additionally, it gives of a big scent, which will attract them.

Unfortunately, they are fragile and almost impossible to keep on a hook.

Use a safety pin hook designed especially to hold soft baits like sand shrimp. The pin of hook should run full length of back of bait, leaving tail and pincers free to move. Some people use a few turns of lead wire, kind used for weighting flies, to help hold shrimp.

Storing jigs

Large saltwater jigs are not only heavy but also bulky. Finding a place to store them safely and conveniently can be a problem. Use a five-gallon plastic bucket with a lid. Just below bucket’s lip, drill or punch equidistant holes all way around. Place jigs inside, hanging them through holes from their big hooks. Pop top back on; label bucket, and presto! Your lures are stored in a safe, untangled and accessible container.

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