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Diggin Jiggin · 06-22-2007, 08:46 AM

I rarely fish into the daylight hours. I only have a few spots that fish consistantly well and I don't want to give them up by fishing into the daylight hours so I'm gone from those spots at first light, even if there's still fish..

I do think the first few hours of daylight can fish as well as the night, but I think it takes certain situation where maybe you have an outflow or a rip or whitewater or a dropoff to deepwater that will hold an occasional fish. My biggest fish of the year so far was a solo fish that hit a popper around 7am.

It also seems like all the blitzes you hear about occur during the daytime, when fish are able to really isolate and hammer a school of baitfish.

06-22-2007, 08:46 AM	#7
Diggin Jiggin Registered User iTrader: (0) Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: plymouth,ma Posts: 1,142	I rarely fish into the daylight hours. I only have a few spots that fish consistantly well and I don't want to give them up by fishing into the daylight hours so I'm gone from those spots at first light, even if there's still fish.. I do think the first few hours of daylight can fish as well as the night, but I think it takes certain situation where maybe you have an outflow or a rip or whitewater or a dropoff to deepwater that will hold an occasional fish. My biggest fish of the year so far was a solo fish that hit a popper around 7am. It also seems like all the blitzes you hear about occur during the daytime, when fish are able to really isolate and hammer a school of baitfish.