First, the obvious: It’s hot out there in many places across the region. The sun can really punish an angler bent on fishing between dawn and dusk. It’ll sap your energy, harm your skin (without proper safeguards) and warm the water to the point that fish demand deep shadows or deeper water. It can also bring out water skiers, jet skiers, swimmers and pleasure boaters—all fine people if they would simply stay on the shore.
With so much competition for a placid piece of water and so much need for relief from the heat, the obvious answer is to fish at night. It can also be the correct answer. Here are three questions to determine whether nighttime is the right time on your favorite summertime bass lake: First, is the water clear with two or more feet of visibility? Second, does the lake get a lot of boat traffic? And third, do you
