With it being my 1st year getting in to it, I've spent a lot of time trying to study and learn the fish online. I've stumbled across a few articles that discussed night fishing for muskies.
A few weeks ago, a friend and I decided to give it a whirl and fish for a few hours (11pm - 2 am range). About an hour into it, he hooked a "weed". About the time he said..."I think it is a fish", the fish came out of the water, threw the lure and made my friend want to suck his thumb and cry for not setting the hook.
As we were heading in and about to call it a night, we had our headlamps on and were trolling along the edge of a weedline. I heard my friend say, "is that a log, what the...is that...ummm....", lol..... as I looked into the water, a big tiger was just sitting right at the edge of the weedline and we were nearly over the top of it. It didn't move until almost the entire boat had gone past it and then it took off like a dart. Figuring that girl was gone for good, I decided to make one loop around and come back through after 20 minutes or so just in case. As we were probably 100 yds from the spot, I looked back with the glare of the moonlight and saw the top probably 1/4 or so of this submarine cruising on top of the water and then disappear right near the spot we had originally seen her. With a renewed hope of having a chance to boat her, we headed that direction.
I was throwing a top water buzzbait with a large brush hawg trailer at this point. Probably the 3rd cast or so as we neared the area, she came up out of the water after it. As one of the downsides of a topwater, and especially at night, is the misses that occur....that split second when I saw her come out, heard the sound of what sounded like a small child doing a canonball when she hit was a heart pounding, adrenaline rushing split second. As she came down and into the water, there wasn't so much as a slight nudge on the line...she missed.
All of that to say, this was a few weeks ago and the only time that I've given them a go at night time. While a 'nearly' productive time on the water, I recognize 1 outing is not enough to be a good indicator so I was wondering if any of you have given them a go at night...and, if so, what kind of results have you had?
Thanks!
Darin
