Night Fishing Archives - Troutbitten https://troutbitten.com/category/night-fishing/ Life on the water | Fly fishing for wild trout. Tips, tactics stories and guide service from central Pennsylvania. Thu, 15 Aug 2024 15:11:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://troutbitten.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/cropped-Troutbitten-32x32.jpg Night Fishing Archives - Troutbitten https://troutbitten.com/category/night-fishing/ 32 32 Troutbitten Fly Box — The Harvey Pusher Night Fly (with VIDEO) https://troutbitten.com/2023/09/22/troutbitten-fly-box-the-harvey-pusher-night-fly-with-video/ https://troutbitten.com/2023/09/22/troutbitten-fly-box-the-harvey-pusher-night-fly-with-video/#comments Fri, 22 Sep 2023 16:17:12 +0000 https://troutbitten.com/?p=270659

When you work the Pusher, imagine the wings flexing and pulsing as you hand twist retrieve and pulse the rod tip on a three count. See the fly in your mind's eye and make it come alive in the dark. Then hold on tight . . .

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Fish With Friends — Doc and Darling, Night Fishing and the Bad Mother Night Fly https://troutbitten.com/2023/07/05/fish-and-film-2-doc-and-darling-night-fishing-and-the-bad-mother-night-fly/ https://troutbitten.com/2023/07/05/fish-and-film-2-doc-and-darling-night-fishing-and-the-bad-mother-night-fly/#comments Wed, 05 Jul 2023 21:26:11 +0000 https://troutbitten.com/?p=269773

The Fish With Friends series continues with Josh and Trevor on a night fishing trip, a few big wild trout and the Bad Mother Night Fly recipe . . .

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Podcast: An Introduction to Night Fishing for Trout — S3-Ep14 https://troutbitten.com/2022/06/26/podcast-an-introduction-to-night-fishing-for-trout-s3-ep14/ https://troutbitten.com/2022/06/26/podcast-an-introduction-to-night-fishing-for-trout-s3-ep14/#comments Sun, 26 Jun 2022 21:16:30 +0000 https://troutbitten.com/?p=266189

Ambition is the fundamental characteristic of every good night fisher. We wade into the darkness for the experience. And we quickly realize that the night game is an unwritten book, with just a few clues and an infinite room for learning new things. Each exhilarating hit and every trout in the net is a unique reward, because night fishing requires that you assemble the puzzle yourself.

In this episode, I’m joined by my friends, Trevor Smith and Josh Darling, for an overview on night fishing for trout . . .

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Podcast — Ep. 4: Wild Trout vs Stocked — The Hierarchy of River Trout https://troutbitten.com/2021/10/12/podcast-ep-4-wild-trout-vs-stocked-the-hierarchy-of-river-trout/ https://troutbitten.com/2021/10/12/podcast-ep-4-wild-trout-vs-stocked-the-hierarchy-of-river-trout/#comments Tue, 12 Oct 2021 23:41:12 +0000 https://troutbitten.com/?p=262100

My friends join me for an honest discussion about the trout we pursue. All of us fish for every kind of trout on the list: wild trout, stocked trout, holdovers, fingerlings and club trout. And all of these trout hold value -- but not equally. There are major differences in the types of trout we catch, and stocked fish are often nothing like their wild counterparts . . .

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Podcast — Ep. 3: Night Fishing, and the Mouse Emerger Concept https://troutbitten.com/2021/10/05/podcast-ep-3-night-fishing-and-the-mouse-emerger-concept/ https://troutbitten.com/2021/10/05/podcast-ep-3-night-fishing-and-the-mouse-emerger-concept/#comments Tue, 05 Oct 2021 23:13:55 +0000 https://troutbitten.com/?p=262066

My night fishing friends, Josh and Trevor join me for a fun and detailed discussion about mouse emergers. This style is about taking the benefits of a top water pattern at night and making it a little harder for the trout to resist. Then, sometimes, we fish similar patterns that remain in the first 3-12 inches of the water column. My friends and I also trade night fishing stories about the scariest and most unusual things that happen while fly fishing after dark.

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Night Fishing for Trout –The Wiggle and Hang https://troutbitten.com/2021/09/11/night-fishing-for-trout-the-wiggle-and-hang/ https://troutbitten.com/2021/09/11/night-fishing-for-trout-the-wiggle-and-hang/#comments Sat, 11 Sep 2021 18:09:19 +0000 https://troutbitten.com/?p=261912

Lifting the rod slightly, I shake the rod tip left and right. Easy, rhythmically, I wiggle the tip and feel the line wave as I see it dance and glow in the dark. The fly shimmies and sends a pattern of waves through the surface and beyond, calling to any trout within who-knows-how-far.

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Night Fishing for Trout — The Bank Flash https://troutbitten.com/2021/08/18/night-fishing-for-trout-the-bank-flash/ https://troutbitten.com/2021/08/18/night-fishing-for-trout-the-bank-flash/#comments Wed, 18 Aug 2021 22:05:14 +0000 https://troutbitten.com/?p=261785

I returned to a tactic that I’d employed on many dark nights where I couldn’t effectively reference the bank. I reached up to my headlamp and flicked on the light for an instant — a half second and no more — before returning back to the black. Then, just like the quick shots of lightning earlier, the lamp showed me the way. The image of the riverbank burned into my brain. Something inside of me calculated the adjustments and converted the images into accuracy with my tools of fly rod, line, leader and fly. It was a little bit of magic . . .

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Night Fishing for Trout — Upside Down and Backward https://troutbitten.com/2021/07/04/night-fishing-for-trout-upside-down-and-backward/ https://troutbitten.com/2021/07/04/night-fishing-for-trout-upside-down-and-backward/#comments Sun, 04 Jul 2021 20:09:35 +0000 https://troutbitten.com/?p=261340

Solving after-dark trout fishing mysteries begins by asking the same fundamental questions as we ask in the daylight: Where are the trout, and how are they feeding?

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Night Fishing for Trout — Location, Location, Location https://troutbitten.com/2020/08/19/night-fishing-for-trout-location-location-location/ https://troutbitten.com/2020/08/19/night-fishing-for-trout-location-location-location/#comments Wed, 19 Aug 2020 19:46:03 +0000 https://troutbitten.com/?p=259422

It took me seasons of trial and error to understand this truth: On some rivers — especially those with larger trout — much of the water after dark is a dead zone. Nothing happens, no matter what flies or tactics you throw at them. Drift or swing big flies or small ones. Hit the banks with a mouse or swing the flats with Harvey Pushers. It doesn’t matter. On most rivers that I night fish, there are long stretches of water that simply won’t produce.

But in these same waters, there are sweet spots to be found — places where the action is almost predictable (by night-fishing standards), where two, three or four fish may hit in the same spot. And then just twenty yards downstream . . . nothing . . .

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Night Fishing for Trout — Fight or Flight https://troutbitten.com/2020/08/04/night-fishing-for-trout-fight-or-flight/ https://troutbitten.com/2020/08/04/night-fishing-for-trout-fight-or-flight/#comments Tue, 04 Aug 2020 19:00:56 +0000 https://troutbitten.com/?p=259345

I finally have an honest understanding about what draws me into night fishing. Yes, it’s the fear. And of the serious night anglers I’ve known, it’s the same for all of us. Fear is the crackling spark plug . . .

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