Do you need any skills to go fishing late at night?

1. Night fishing equipment and use

In addition to the fishing tackle and bait you bring with you on weekdays, you should also prepare luminous sticks, headlamps (or other small Lamps), mosquito repellent toilet water (preferably spray type), alcohol cotton balls (for wiping hands), it is best to bring tents and air mattresses if possible, long-sleeved shirts and trousers are preferred, material basins, It is best to use white bait dishes, hand towels and other utensils so that they can be easily seen in the dark and reduce the number of times the lights are turned on. For fishing friends who use multiple casting rods, it is best to use a single fish bell. The sound of double bells is too loud. Although the loud ringing is exciting, the non-stop ringing is also annoying on a quiet night, especially if it is adjacent. It will be even more annoying for fishing friends who have to wrap a luminous rod with tape on each bell. If there is a slight noise, you can see which rod is moving. Sometimes the bell is thrown off and it is easier to find. You can use toilet water to repel mosquitoes, or you can use mosquito coils (there are fewer mosquitoes on windy nights when there is less wind at night). When using toilet water to repel mosquitoes, you must use alcohol cotton balls to wipe your hands, otherwise the smell of toilet water will be transferred to the bait. Fish will not eat the hook. Lighting fixtures should be turned on as little as possible, and the lights must not be allowed to dangle on the water, let alone shine directly on nest areas and fishing spots. The lights constantly swaying on the water will not only frighten the fish underwater, but also frighten the fish on the other side. Very annoying to anglers. Fishing friends with experience in night fishing pay great attention to this point.

2. Selection of fishing time

Choosing the weather suitable for night fishing is equally important as choosing the weather for fishing during the day. It is difficult to catch fish at night when fishing is not suitable. of. For example: it is difficult to catch fish after the water surface fogs at night, on bright moonlit nights, and on nights with westerly winds above level 3. My experience is: in terms of time, try to choose the moonless night between the 25th of each month in the lunar calendar and the tenth day of the next month; in terms of weather, it is best to choose weather with northerly and easterly winds. You must arrive at the fishing spot before sunset, choose the fishing position, adjust the fishing gear, and build a good nest before dark. If you can catch it before dark, it is better to catch a few hooks during the feeding period before the fish’s eyes enter the light-changing period. After it gets dark, the fish's eyes enter the light-changing period. At this time, the fish's eyesight is at its lowest, and they usually lie dormant and rarely eat. This period takes about two hours, from about 9:30 pm to about 12:00. It is the first peak period for fish feeding at night, and the second peak period is from 2:30 to 4 o'clock in the morning (3 to 5 o'clock in autumn). During the period from 12:30 to 2:30, you can give up fishing and take a break to recharge your batteries so that you have the energy to fish again during the peak feeding period from 6 to 8 o'clock the next morning.

3. Select fishing positions and fishing points

Compared with those during the day, the selection of fishing positions and fishing points for night fishing has similarities and differences. If you mainly fish for carp, you should choose the tip of the hook that protrudes into the water from the bank, the side of the large water surface where the small water surface is connected to the large water surface, the slow flow of the water inlet and outlet, etc. The lower hook point should not be too far from the shore and should be Find the bottom of the slope where the underwater bank extends into the water as a fishing point. If the rod is extended too long or too far from the bottom of the slope, no fish will bite the hook. If you mainly fish for grass carp, you should choose the sunken leeward bay on the shore, the front edge with aquatic plants in the shore water, under big trees, and in small waters connected to the large water surface. As long as the channel between the large water surface and the large water surface is clear, The connected small water surfaces don’t have to be small, and more than a few dozen square meters are enough. Because there are often abundant food such as aquatic plants in small water bodies, grass carp will dive in in groups on quiet nights to grab food. If you want to line up to fish for catfish or snakehead at night, you should observe before dark. Choose a shore with more small fish on the water surface before dark, or choose a shore downwind of the wind direction before dark. Try to choose a shore without high poles. The bank of grass is convenient for arranging fishing rods. (There are different position and point selection methods for fishing different fish, and due to space limitations, we cannot describe them all in detail here). In addition, from a human perspective, when fishing for carp or grass carp at night in waters where there are few people fishing at night, the first choice should be a location where people often fish during the day. If it is in waters where people fish at night almost every day, try to choose unmanned night fishing. It is a fishing position where the number of night fishing is relatively small.

4. Use of fishing gear and fishing methods

Night fishing mostly focuses on large fish such as carp and grass carp. Some fishing friends also like to fish for crucian carp at night. Adjusting fishing gear and fishing methods are the quickest and most convenient, but when fishing for grass carp, carp, etc., it is best to use a rocky pole with double hooks and a floating fishing method, which can kill all sizes with one pole.

If multiple rods are used for casting fishing, the bomb hook fishing group is the first choice. However, the baiting method of the bomb hook during night fishing is slightly different from that during the day. When casting at night, the sound of the bait ball entering the water is loud, so it should be minimized. The number of castings, try to lift the rod as little as possible if you are not catching fish, which requires that the bait and hook can be kept together for a long time without separation. Therefore, when loading bait, you should first pinch a small ball on the bait spring of the bomb hook. Sticky and hard bait (about the size of a walnut), and then wrap a layer of relatively soft and loose bait on the outside (the wrapped bait ball is as big as an egg), the hook is pressed into the outside bait, and the bait hook is thrown in After entering the water, the outside bait is quickly scattered around the hook, but a small ball of bait on the bait spring can be kept for a long time, which does not affect the speed of catching fish and can keep the bait on the hook for a long time. This is a trick for baiting night fishing with rod-throwing bomb hooks, and the effect is very good. You can also install bad food bait on the bait spring of the bomb hook, and hang cooked corn kernels or musk corn kernels on each hook. Although this hook installation method can also keep the bait on the hook at all times, it is effective in catching grass carp. The carp fishing is far less effective. It is best to use small luminous rods for night fishing to ensure sensitivity. Regardless of whether you use a hand rod or a rocky rod double hook fishing method, the brain line must be slightly longer, at least 25 cm. The length of the brain line I generally use when fishing for big fish at night is 40 cm.

5. Use of bait

The range of bait used in night fishing is very wide, because there are no small fish to make hooks, and the fishy, ??fragrant, sweet, sour and smelly can be determined according to the fish being fished. Any combination of your favorites. My experience in using bait for night fishing in summer is: to mainly fish for carp, use a fishy, ??fragrant, slightly sweet and slightly smelly mixed flavor; to mainly fish for grass carp, use a fragrant, slightly sour mixed flavor; for carp and grass carp To kill, use a mixture of fragrant and fishy smell that is mainly light fragrance. For example: medicinal wine rice plus pao powder pellet feed powder plus rapeseed cake powder plus silk powder plus Long 5 (commercial bait). The nest bait used for night fishing should be filled as much as possible before dark, and the nest should not be specially repaired at night. The bait on the hook should be soft, taste better, and should be attached to the hook for a longer time, so the bait should be in a sticky state than the bait used during the day. Some, in order to reduce the number of lifting rods and try not to lift empty rods.

Many fishing friends are interested in using traditional Chinese medicine in bait. I will introduce several traditional Chinese medicines that I have used. Commonly used Chinese medicines for fishing crucian carp are: male clove, licorice, Shenqu, etc.; commonly used Chinese medicines for fishing carp include : Male lilac, cinnamon, amaranth, Shenqu, etc. Commonly used for fishing grass carp include: male lilac, cinnamon, grass fruit, spiritual grass, Shenqu, etc. It is difficult to control the amount of traditional Chinese medicine bait. It takes many repeated trials to get good results. If the dosage is wrong, it may even be counterproductive, so it is recommended that beginners not to be obsessed with this method. "The quality of bait is very important, but the correct use of bait is more important." I have said this many times in other articles, and it is also my personal experience of fishing for many years. As long as you use more brains and more in the use of bait, If you work hard, you won't have to worry about not getting good results.