Hatches Wind DownĪs the Hex hatch winds down a lot of folks will retire for the season and start breaking down their gear and hanging up their waders for the year. The Night Fishing arena offers a very unique venue and one that offers its own set of challenges with respect to presentation and tact.

It’s popularity has grown quite rapidly throughout the past decade and Night Fishing has quickly become a popular pursuit among anglers chasing the largest trout of their season. Night fishing is a way of life here in Michigan, traditionally it was a quiet pursuit that was only whispered about in the back of a fly shop or amongst anglers that were already in the know. The terrestrial fishing is heating up, our weather is shifting to more humid and warmer days/nights, and the larger fish in our rivers still prefer to hunt at night. Multi-Species Fishing: How Many can you Catch in O.It’s the middle of July and the majority of our hatches are complete.Swinging Salmon Flies for Trout (and other species).A Short Trip, Small Flies, and Hefty Trout.I didn't really try to get a carp in the money spot because it would likely key them off to our presence. I went out briefly the night before just to poke around an I found two giant panfish. He fouled a large one earlier this year while shad fishing, obviously that doesn't count. I thought this would be a great opportunity to help another fishing friend, Ben Bilello, get into his first legally fly caught carp. And they were oddly unaware of the presence of a waiting angler. Carp were coming into the area around this particular dock and feeding under the streetlights. He had seen carp feeding on minnows while jogging along the shoreline, and when he inspected close he found that it seemed to be a fairly regular feeding pattern. Noah tipped me off to this interesting nocturnal behavior three days prior. The deciding factor of this fish catch? It was 10:00 at night. The fish showed no signs of noticing that was there, when it surely would have spooked violently at most times of day. I was standing in full view of the fish at rod length with absolutely nothing obscuring that bright red tee. That carp took a black woolly bugger the first time it was presented to it.

Fly fishing at night