Speeding

Standard (Doc) Klayman introduced me to night fishing with worms and jigs and black lights at Bull Shoals Lake back in the 1980's. It is still my way favorite trick in the world where normal sleep, but not the only way to fish at night.

In fact, almost any type of bait used for the day has its devotees during the night, except crankbaits.

I'm not particularly fond of trolling in general, but I love fishing and experiencing night with baits and techniques, so a few years ago to ask me why not crankbaits?

Since the bass does not have a worm problem to detect dark gliding through the depths of ebony in the night, surely you can see a moving and colliding on trolling. If buzzbaits speeding on the surface have severe at night, probably half the troll does not move too fast?

A lot of people use spinnerbaits at night too. Why what crankbaits seem to be on the type of bait is only allowed to rest? Why is it easy to find black versions of each type of bait, but crankbaits?

Maybe there was a practical reason for excluding the troll from the hours of darkness. I started asking other fishermen night if he had ever tried crankbaits during night. Common responses were: "I never thought of it" or "I just never tried."

Not a fisherman gave me a reason practice, so that at night I connected hard bait.

If you just never thought about it, or simply have never tried, maybe I should. Under final crankbaits in the lower reach of big night.

My favorite method is for the big fish, deep diving crankbaits in relatively shallow water. Is a method I learned from David Fritz a day at Kentucky Lake for many years. They recover very slowly with frequent short pauses. I am constantly knock down with this recovery, and only paused a second or two, but it takes almost as long to complete a back and make another deal as it does with a worm.

The attacks come during short breaks in a slack line, so you have to pay attention. Sometimes all I feel is a tick or a bite-like bump worm. Sometimes the line just goes completely slack. Very often, however, I have this feeling slight undulation. It's strange: unlike any other bite.

Now, I'll admit that this is my favorite way to fish crankbaits at night because I'm basically a finesse fisherman. I find it just something out of foundry and start again a little bored and working too much for someone who fishes all the time. But it is far from being the only trolling method will work in the evening.

After using large crankbaits for a few months ago, I commented to Dave Stewart, who is probably the best guide on Kentucky Lake.

"What fun is worth noting that," he said. "I have not used crankbaits at night since I moved here, but to win many tournaments night with crankbaits when lived in Frankfort, Kentucky. I do not pull the big, however. He won all the tournaments launch a # 7, black / silver Shadrap surface points. But I had the Excavation below as much as possible. "

Dave said most of his strikes were hard, but I guess it was because he was using a smaller bait to be retrieved more quickly to the bottom of excavation. Whether you're fishing during the day or night, all crankbaits work better if less digging.

I recently read a report of other Kentucky Lake anglers catching big smallmouth on the pea gravel points and banks the lake at night with Magnum Move warts patterns of crawfish. Obviously, a fisherman some others have been asking "why not crankbaits overnight. "It is said that might lead or what might occur.

Trolling the potential options and techniques for night fishing in this time is limited only by the imagination of fishermen. It is things like these that keep the fishermen in again with renewed enthusiasm, decade after decade. It is, above all, a thinking man's sport.
Now I wonder if anyone has ever tried jerkbaits suspended in the night?

Ron Kruger has been an outdoor writer/photographer/editor for over 30 years.

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