Fishing at Night
I love to fish anytime, but there is something special about fishing during the dark. Getting some chicken livers or worms and baiting up the hooks and just throwing it out, until a catfish hooks it self on the bait and hook you have carefully prepared is fun. We usually take a flashlight light or two, maybe a lantern and each person will usually bring more than 1 rod. So we just bait them up and throw them out and talk about the old times. It’s a great way to kill time and all you need is your fishing gear, throw on some jeans and t-shirts (depending on how cool it might get in the overnight hours) and just sit back and shoot the bull. My friends and I just look at it as a way to talk to each other and we might catch a fish while were doing it. When you first get there, you’re looking at every line and noticing the slightest of movements in your fishing line. After an hour or two passes, you get to talking more and forget about the rods and that you’re actually fishing. When you least expect it, you will see one of the rods bow over or fall down to the ground where a catfish has hooked their self and now realize they have a hook in their mouth and they are trying to swim away. Sometimes we have had our poles too close together and one fish would manage to tangle up all the rods and cause a big mess. It’s not too fun trying to add sinkers and a hook on your fishing line at night, so try to space your fishing poles out, so they are not that close together. You might also know of some places to catfish that are better than the places I go, but if somebody in our group can catch a fish every 30 minutes to an hour, I am happy at that rate. If you haven’t tried to catfish at night and plan to try it for the first time this summer, be sure you get to your fishing place at least 1 hour before dark. So then you can get use to your surroundings and maybe gather up some firewood before it gets dark. So when the sun does go down, you will be all set to land the big one! Catfish and carp will bite in the evening before dark too, so be sure to watch the rods while your getting firewood together or setting up your things. Just remember you can’t catch a fish, unless your hook is out in the water.
