Typically, when evening food chain has been started, larger fish will be deeper. If you aren’t getting hits, bring your bait up a little and catch smaller skinny ones for awhile. Remember to keep checking deep, big ones will eventually come. All that food is too hard to resist!

When fishing at night, use of berley is essential! Use a deep water berley system, such as The Secret Weapon, to get a heap of berley down to bottom before it gets dark. This is a very effective method that many fishermen either aren’t aware of or don’t use.

The Importance Of Plankton

Most daytime strategies involve frantic pursuit of prey that may not even be interested (hungry) when located. At night, key is to find plankton, relax and entice big game to come to you. The key is locating plankton, not necessarily your game fish.

You can use daylight hours to locate large quantities of plankton – this is where fish will feed at night. Most species of bait fish feed on plankton, so it is important to know where a lot of plankton is located.

As you are searching for an anchor spot, make sure to be on lookout for “stained water”. This is water that contains plankton and or nutrients that attract plankton. You want to target stained water that is 45 – 70 feet deep.

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Sensing Night Bites

Did you know that many bites from big boys go completely unnoticed? Sometimes smallest tug brings up biggest fish (in my experience). Here are some proven methods to increase your sensitivity to these subtle big game bites.

Braided line saves a lot of retying of frayed line and its sensitivity makes subtle bites easier to detect.

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 bite is on, rod tip will barely move because fish is swimming out, not down. If it swims up, rod will slacken – in either case it will be hard to tell unless you have some light on that rod tip.

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 way, a black light is probably one of most important pieces of night fishing gear. It will make fluorescent monofilament line glow like a laser beam across dark water and will allow anglers to detect subtle strikes that would ordinarily go unnoticed.

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