| The dog days of summer are really tough for any | | | | have a versatile partner. |
| fisherman, but there is a very good alternative to | | | | Everything that you've learned in past years can turn |
| fishing in the scorching heat. Most people would prefer | | | | to crap in one night. That's when you have to go |
| not to, but night fishing is a wonderful way to beat the | | | | different techniques and colors. Before Ed and I |
| heat. My personal favorite is bass fishing at night with | | | | started fishing together he was a pier and bank |
| a spinnerbait. Me and my brother-in-law, Ed Majors, | | | | fisherman and I was a hump and structure fisherman. |
| have been fishing tournaments at night for a few | | | | You combine the two and have a winning team. |
| years now and I have turned him into a bass fishing | | | | Sometimes it takes an act of congress to get either to |
| machine. We have fished together many years but | | | | change their tactics but most of the time it turns out to |
| we decided to get serious, so off we went. | | | | be a winning combination. It all depends on how |
| I taught him everything I knew, which wasn't much, but | | | | pig-headed the other one is. |
| now he is showing me how to be more versatile with | | | | Anyway, what I am trying to say is find the right |
| my selection of baits and tactics. What I mean by this | | | | partner and night fishing will be one of the best |
| is my basic colors for a spinnerbait is blue and | | | | experiences of your life. Even though neither one of |
| chartreuse and black and red. But Ed will throw | | | | you have any experience fishing at night, two minds |
| anything in the box. A lot of the time my choice works | | | | are better than one. It's also more fun to have a friend |
| well for me, but most of time I am asking him what he | | | | or family member in the boat with you at night. There's |
| is throwing. | | | | nothing like the peacefulness and quiet of nighttime |
| Now having said all that, night fishing is a trial and error | | | | fishing. Your concentration is heightened and the |
| thing. It seems to me that every night is different. If you | | | | experience is nothing like you've ever known. You |
| have a full moon you need lighter colored baits. Dark | | | | don't have to put up with all the skiers, seadoos, and a |
| nights you need dark colored baits. Even daytime | | | | lot of fisherman because they are asleep. I don't think |
| conditions will change the whole structure of nighttime | | | | Ed will ever be the same after fishing at night because |
| fishing. If it's been cloudy and rainy all day, fish have a | | | | the fish get bigger and tougher at night. Maybe one |
| tendency to pull into shallower water and under piers. | | | | day we might go back to daytime fishing but right now |
| But if it's been a bright sunny day they have a | | | | this is the way to go. Give it a try - you'll be hooked for |
| tendency to pile up on humps and roadbeds. It is really | | | | life! |
| hard to break the traditional fishing habits so it's nice to | | | | |