Eastland :

Great points. I agree the live bait tatic will help. I have seen data on night feeding bass in the south during summer . When we were having no luck catching bass on one lake where we knew we had a good population I ask a friend who was one of the fisheries biologist for the state for that area. He said they were feeding at night during july-mid sept. without looking at the lake. Because he wanted data on this lake which is adjacent to his large river/resv. area of 35,000 acres he brought in his electrofishing boat and surveyed. Tons of bass and shad and cats and BG and rough fish but none could be caught during daytime. When it got dark we took his boat in the middle of the lake and turned on his light and shined it in the water and all hell broke lose . When the light hit a group of shad the bass went into a feeding freenzy knocking shad out of the water everywhere. He said he saw that all the time on his resv. There was also a recent article I think in bassmaster on fishing at night on Lake Fork for large bass. ewest