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It’s nighttime! Why would color selection matter at all? Matt Allen of Tactical Bassin’ teaches you exactly why color does matter at night and which colors you should be throwing when you beat the summer heat with a little night fishing.
Have you ever had one of those nights where you get out on the water, start to fish, and suddenly notice that there is nothing out there? There isn’t a bird, a squirrel, a fish on the surface, nothing. Everything around you just seems dead. Typically, that isn’t the time to be trying to throw a topwater. Obviously the fish haven’t gone to another lake, they just aren’t being active on the surface. That is when its time to try your hand at subsurface reaction baits.
I’ve broken it into 5 baits that I like to use. In no particular order they are the Chatterbait, spinnerbait, deep diving crankbait, small lipless crankbait, and large lipless crankbait. Between these 5 baits I’m able to do just about everything that night fishing can throw at me in terms of high-speed fishing.
I hope you’re able to take these tips and turn them in to big bites on your local fisheries.
What are your top 5 reaction baits? I’m always curious to see what other anglers are using. Of your top 5, which one seems to consistently draw the bigger bites?
For those of you wanting to pick up some of these baits that aren’t available at your local retailers, head over to tacklewarehouse. Here is the link: Matt’s go-to Lipless bait on tacklewarehouse
Several weeks ago I received a request for information on fishing chatterbaits. As I thought about how to approach the subject I decided it would be best to bring in an expert to shed some light on the technique. Mike Rold has been dominating local circuits for years, is my strongest mentor on tidal fisheries, and is extremely skilled at plying chatterbaits to a variety of situations. At first I thought an “on the water” video was the way to go but as I thought about this subject it occurred to me that Mike would be more apt to “tell it like it is” if he didn’t know this video was coming and had to instruct with little to no notice. He was given about 10 minutes to prepare when I called to inform him that I was just down the road. The result is this AWESOME, tell-all video on how, when, and where to fish chatterbaits in a variety of environments.
Did you enjoy this video? Do you want to hear more from Mike and other anglers in the future? Let us know! As always, comments and suggestions are welcome.