Spinnerbaits For Night Bass Fishing

Many bass anglers head to the lake at the day’s end during the summer for two distinct reasons. First, it allows them to escape the high-level of recreational boat activity present throughout the summer. Plus when air temperatures are high, nighttime is often the best time to find feeding bass, especially the big gals!

So what does the savvy nighttime bass angler do to catch big bass?

There are many lures and presentations that will trigger summertime bass into striking from dusk to dawn. Although many anglers feel night time is topwater time, there are many night where the bass are not on a topwater bite. When that happens, it’s time to probe the depths and one of the more popular subsurface lures is the spinnerbait. Spinnerbaits are one of most versatile artificial lures available to the bass angler. When combining the multitude of spinnerbait configurations with different retrieves, the spinnerbait’s advantage over other subsurface bass lures is unquestionable.

What Makes a Great Nighttime Spinnerbait?

Most spinnerbait manufacturers produce baits in a variety of different configurations by offering a range of different weights, color patterns along with the type and number of blades on the upper shaft. This allows each bass angler the benefit of using a spinnerbait they have the most confidence in when fishing their favorite waters.

Spinnerbaits for the Night Bite

Throughout much of the year, bass, particularly big bass are active and put on the feed bag at night!

Over the years, some of my best times on the water came when the Sun was long gone and moonlight illuminated the water’s surface. In my early years of night fishing, topwater was often the bait at the end of my rod, usually with mixed success since bass won’t always take a surface bait, even at night.

After a few years of mixed results during my night trips, a long-time friend who focused most of his bassin’ trips in the dark keyed my in on using spinnerbaits to catch both largemouth and smallmouth bass at night.

Since that time, one or more spinnerbaits have been ready to use to probe the waters for our favorite nocturnal prey 🙂

Take a moment to watch the following short video on fishing spinnerbaits at night…

Do you have your nighttime spinnerbait arsenal ready to go?

I do :D