Deep Lake Fishing Report: 7-2-06

Nice job, guys I noticed you guys caught many of those fish when it was already pretty dark. How do you figure the bass can see the senkos underwater at night? I've heard of fishing in the dark with sufarce lures, but am glad to know that soft plastics underwater work as well.

Fan... that's exactly what we were saying. That's why I was fishing a frog. It wasn't till after Augy caught his 5th fish that I finally gave in and put a dark colored Senko on and sure enough, a fish. It wasn't actually pitch dark outside, but getting close. We would have stayed out but the mosquitos were unreal!

Thanks for the tip, Jason. I was just curious, that's all. I guess fish see better than we do in water

Nice report. I'm itching to get back out there.

Rich

you would think that brighter colors work better late evening/night but they can actually see the darker colored stuff better. i read many online articles about this and i just took their advice. i'm not that smart! :mrgreen:

the senko that i was using was actually black with blue but purple probably would have worked just as well. the trick was to drag the senko across the top of lilly pads and heavy weeds and once it got to the edge just let if fall. whamo!! gotta love fishing when they just slam a lure like that. what a rush.

there was also a report of a 22 incher that was caught earlier that day. gotta get back there soon.

Good job guys! The reason that dark colored baits work better when it is dark is because the dark color gives a better silhouette against the sky when the fish looks upward.

toothdoc said:

Good job guys! The reason that dark colored baits work better when it is dark is because the dark color gives a better silhouette against the sky when the fish looks upward.

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Makes sense to me. Thanks toothdoc