Early morning not only adds a mystique of watching the sunrise and terrific fishing, especially during shad spawns, but you also beat a lot of the wakeboats and knuckleheads out just burning gas
I agree. The only time I do is when I'm lucky and ready. Sometimes I wake up early and can't get back to sleep, on those mornings I'm happy that I keep my gear packed and ready to go at a moments notice. Only time I do some sunrise fishing is by accident when stars align, lol.
Thank you so much 💓!!! Now don't have to feel guilty for not hitting the spot 4am in the morning. 😢 Even when I did, didn't catch any. Also before sunset is a good time but not always. As long as they don't care about what and where you cast, just enjoy the midday time. Great wisdom!
Randy ty for your videos. They are very important to guys like me who didn’t grow up with fishing role models or mentors. You close the gap on our learning curve and I can’t say enough how much it is appreciated
During the hot summer here , if you go in the middle of the day here down south you will not catch much , it gets too hot for em , if I do fish during this time you have till about 10:00am in the morning and the evenings you have a few hours before dark that they will only feed in the month of June , July , and August
I would love to fish mid day so I could sleep in, but here in the Phoenix area, anything after 9 am your being tossed by the swells and waves that ski and wave boat make. The lake gets like a washing machine.
As a kayak fisherman, from dawn until 10am is the only peaceful time to be on water. After around 10, you gotta find a no engines allowed lake, or risk death
Honestly the main reason I fish at sunrise because there are a lot fewer people. My home like is crowded with live bait users all day between noon and 7pm
it depend about alot of things, where i live there is so many different spots, swamps, lakes, rivers. in one spot i can get the fish on the morning and at dawn, in other spots in midday, after rain some spots got really muddy and some swampy place got the crystal clear water. i go from one to the other because in some place i cant get any bites but 3miles aways they bite like crazy. its hard to pu a general fits all thing on this in my opinion
Great points! You need to know your body of water, eg your ‘varies lake to lake’ comment. My PB LMB was 4:45am mimicking early morning baitfish (needless to say, no one else was on the lake yet).
Great info Randy! I follow Prime Times from Rick Taylor and what you are saying is in alignment with Prime Times. The bite window in the high sun seems to be 11:30AM and 3:00PM according to Rick. I have experienced this bite phenomenon first hand. I never miss fishing this time of day!
Couldn’t agree more! We quit trying to get out to fish at anytime before 10am. In fact, we never usually catch any bass before noon here in western NY…best bites start around 3-5pm. 🤷♂️
Early morning is so overrated. I've caught a lot of my best fish during the day, or at night. But I've noticed a lot of the bite depends on available cover. If they dump herbicides into the lake to kill weeds, they don't bite well during the day. But if there's good available cover, the fish usually feel secure and bite well when the sun is up.
Yeah, just on Thursday water. I caught more during full light, fishing the shadows at 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm. When the evening shade came, I that is when I expected to get better bites.....nada. With that said, this lake used to go off the hook in last 20 minutes before sunset when the sun went behind certain trees. I don't know what changed. But I find myself getting to the lake later afternoon and get a surprising amount of fish in full sun but fishing the tight shade exactly like you said.
@@Aethelvlad lol well at the risk of bragging it was my 3rd biggest last week. (Best fishing week of my life). I also got a 24" that was 8lbs 10 oz and a GIANT 25.25" that was 10.1
Dawn/dusk is the "magic hours" for a reason. Just feeding habits and biology. Bass are non eyelid fish, in bright sky situations they don't like moving as much because of bird strikes. It's science, bass feed most at night so dawn/dusk isn't made up, it's just the best transition period
yeah there's no way. It's too hot, too many pleasure boaters, and all the fish are hiding from the sun like i should be. I'll stick with night fishing.
Ninety percent of the bass of cotton has been in the morning or in the afternoon to evening.... I've caught big bass in the middle of the day, traffic but I definitely caught more fish in the morning an evening. It was funny that you say it's because we can see better during the day because at night they still eat food and they can't see better then
it depend about alot of things, where i live there is so many different spots, swamps, lakes, rivers. in one spot i can get the fish on the morning and at dawn, in other spots in midday, after rain some spots got really muddy and some swampy place got the crystal clear water. i go from one to the other because in some place i cant get any bites but 3miles aways they bite like crazy. its hard to pu a general fits all thing on this in my opinion