As day turns to night, how do you transition
 

Fishing from daylight conditions into nightime conditions, what lures do you transition through?
For me, in bright daytime, it's tins, shad, sm. sluggos, pencils, jigs.
During sunset it's danny's, needlefish, finnish swimmers, spooks.
At dark it's needlefish, finnish swimmers (on top), darters, lg. sluggos.
What's your preference?

Personally my bag changes very little! Daytime includes 3 sizes of pencils, "Prey" swimmers (lighter colors), "Blitz Seekers" (Spooks), a few "45" Swimmers. After dark.....take out the pencils and add some Danny's....needles, jointed eels and depending on moon phase my "Prey" swimmers may change to darker Black Scale, Eel Green o/Silver, Blurple! Also put some bombers in, again in the appropriate colors depending on moon phase.:kewl::kewl:

White 7.5 Slug Go during the day.

Pink 7.5 inch Slug Go in the evening.

Black 7.5 Slug Go at night.

I fish all of them on jig heads weighing anywhere from 1/4 to 1 ounce depending on conditions. Or weightless if I'm trying to stay near the surface and i'm fishing in no current.

dusk ,, spook..

Take off the shades.

I go from Tins, Pencil Poppers and Poppers

and switch to Needles and Eels

I go from not fishing to fishing.

Come on Max you fibber! You still fish daylight!:jester:

Bingo! :kewl:

I am, most usually, on the other end of this question..................

My transition is from dark night to gray, false, and first. I doan work into the night much and plan my tidal and lunar assaults around working out of the night and into the light.

Love the DARK, LOVE the low lights and, and Love that first hour of light.

I go from eels/blk sluggos, white/white~red/blk~red/red jigs with Uncle Josh, yellow/blk/blurple darters in big water and pink/white/blurple needles in bigger water in the DEEP of the night, to

pink/white sluggos, herring/olive green/cremesicle spooks, schoolbus/blurple bombers, and blurple/white pencils in the GRAY, to

herring/olive green/blu&wht danny's, blk&clr/blu&clr/pearl Cotten's bombers, bunker/pearl/herring porn shads, above jigs, and the above spooks in the FALSE to FIRST LIGHT. I like to pop the Danny's on top, then let 'em swim about a foot or two beneath the surface after First Light.

Mostly it's about what works best for you and provides you with the most confidence, because that is the lure that you will work the most effectively and the one that you will achieve the best results from :bl: :bl:!!

Wobblehead Eel tubes and Black Knight metals at night.I'm tellin ya ...don't put the metal away when the sun goes down.:devil:

OOOPS!

I almost forgot, "The tins, BOSS............zee TEENS!!"

The blk wobble heads and tube/surfhogs walking stick are nighttime magic, and the butterfish for p-nuts, po-jee 3oz B70, the 184 pt jude lure8, and the hopkins and a tube combo from low lights to bright lights................

Sorry 'bout that Joe, we mustn't neglect our tins.............eh:kewl:?

BINGO!!!
I was beginning to worry. Too many guys say their chasing bass in the daylight. Are you crazy?? Bass are nocturnal. Even in the Fall they feed with more frequency and with less caution in the dark than in the daylight. If I can see without my necklight then I have no confidence of catching large.

I leave work and pick up some eels.

I use two totally different bags (sets of inserts actually) for my day & night fishing... Very few plugs/ lures are in both! Even my bucktails & rinds are different! :wave:

I'm 90% nocturnal from shore... but in Fall esp. (and early Spring) I'll fish the "right" days! Have had lots of high 20's/ low 30's Bass in daylight-- but like Paul all of my surf Large(r) came at night!

i'm usually driving north (sometimes south), drinking coffee and plotting

Have to disagree Piemma. Bass are not nocturnal.....and they don't sleep! They feed day and night! They may be more daring at night but they are opportunistic feeders! I can happily admit I love fishing in the light of day as well as the dark of night! Those who say they don't fish in the daytime are liars!:rotf2: I like to catch fish and enjoy all that is around me day or night along with a good bite! Topwater fishing is the balls! Seeing the explosion on a popper is the best! Different strokes for different folks but many seem to frown on those that just enjoy fishing!:huh:

i gotta agree. what about all those big fish that get caught during the day down in jersey on pencils? or the canal run in the spring? they're obviously not nocturnal then. i fish primarily at night, but big fish do get caught during the day...

I live on the beach some weeks/weekends and fish 20 out of the 24 hours in a day, so I do need to switch

:sleeps:

Get up @ midnight and go out. No crowds, no traffic to deal with.

Larry:
You said it best at the end of your post "different strokes for different folks" I just don't have a lot of confidence in the light.

Bryan (RIRockhound) use to say that we were part vampire.

I turn on the running lights, or just the anchor light :kewl:

Its a tough call for me Piemma. I love the daytime...you can see everything! The bait, the birds, the fish often times and always the topwater excitement! Then at night....the challenge of casting into darkness and almost relying on feel and instinct to find the fish and then the sudden jerk on your line and then you can see and hear the splashing! I don't know which I like the most.....50/50 I guess!

the flash light comes out at night