TPW MAGAZINE -- NIGHT BASS: When you fish may be as 
important as where you fish when it comes to big bass 
[:05 " ... better at night."] ... on Passport to Texas

This is Passport to Texas

The stars at night are big and bright in Texas, and so are 
the bass. They're big, anyway. It seems the biggest of the 
big come out when the sun goes down.

07 -- Talking with a number of people who practice fishing at 
night, I got a lot of tips on where and why and how ... .
 
Larry Hodge, with the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center 
in Athens compiled tips on bass fishing at night for an 
article in the July issue of Texas Parks and Wildlife 
magazine. According to the guides and anglers he 
interviewed, big fish come into the shallows at night, 
because that's when the food arrives. 

25 -- At night, the bait fish -- chad, primarily -- minnows, 
crayfish, and other things that know that daytime is the 
dangerous time to be out because you might get eaten, tend to 
move up into shallow water at night because it's safer -- until a 
big bass comes along. So, there's more food at night available 
up in the shallow water, and the bass know that, so that's 
when they go fishing.

Tomorrow, Larry Hodge returns to tell us the best place 
fish for bass at night, and the gear to have with you when 
going after the big one.

05 -- Use heavy line. Heavy equipment. And be prepared to do 
battle with a really big bass.

The Sport Fish restoration program supports our series.

For Texas Parks and Wildlife ... I'm Cecilia Nasti.







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