Playing with Plastics after dark?

[Brad_H]

Hi Guys,
I suppose this could almost be a POLL , but I am looking for an idea of how many people regard Soft Plastics as a daytime only presentation. I have noticed quite a few references in these boards along the lines of " got dark so changed from plastics to bait/Hard body lure."

Cmon guys give us some feedback, I always look forward to bunking a few myths

Cheers Brad [smiley=dankk2.gif]

[Fishin_Dan]

I have caught 1 fish (small flatty) on plastics after dark. It was a GULP, so had heaps of scent on it... Other than that, never really caught anything on em once the sun goes down...

Although a full moon out on the shallow reefs around the islands would be a different story. They would silhoutte nicely!

[flickflack]

Softies work just as well after dark as they do in the daylight. There are many fish that do a lot of their feeding at night rather than in the day. Fish like jacks,jewies and trevallies all do the majority of their hunting during low light periods and at night . Just try to use a plastic that puts out a bit of vibration so that the fish can key in on it a bit better. You will find that a lot of the hits you get at night on softies are a lot harder than in the day because the fish are actively feeding.
Give em a go and you will be pleasantly surprised.

Rod

[fishingnottake]

99% of my plastic fishing is at night, though some of that is in lit up area's like birdges etc, more would be in pitch black, or low light conditions.

[cuzzamundi]

mate ive have taken a jack, trevors and flatties on prawnstar jnrs at night. yet to nail one on hardbody, though ive just recently tried em, and looking at the people's results on here, they undoubtedly work also. give em a go.

cuzza

[aquarius]

They work well at night on a rising full moon around the bay island shallows.
Have caught 60cm+ snappery/squire in water 3 metres in depth.
Spray some scent on the plastics to help entice a strike.
Cheers Brent

[oddbudman]

I was up at noosa last week and got onto around 6 flatheads at night, all good size.. I was using them on the outskirts of a lit area near then jetty at tewantin.

I also caught one in pitch black on a new moon.

As others have said, the movement gets the fish attracted.

[DICER]

likewise I have had several hot non-stop sessions near tewantin at night - in fact all night long. plastic prawns produced the trevally (which had their stomachs filled with real ones), while flathead were caught on anything; hard bodies or soft plastics.

[DICER]

BTW I have seen people pull in several 4-8kg trevally specimens on a moonless night from tangalooma jetty with large soft plastics

[caught-ya]

we caught alot of estuary perch and bream on atomic shads and little squidgies down at syndey

[SimonT]

I had a good session on squire in the Brisbane river at night about 6 weeks ago. My theory was a larger plastic, dark in colour to give a good sillouette, with plenty of scent. I used a 4" Berkey Turtle back worm in watermelon and it worked quite well. I tried the same theory again a few weeks later for nothing though.......

[Brad_H]

Hi Guys thanks a lot for your thoughts.

I don't need converting though, 90% of my fishing is with sorft plastics(the other 5% is hard lures). I was more interested is seeing the responces and to encourage others to give the frangers a go after dark.

The Jewie in my Mud Is post was caught at 1am on a 5" Gambler in a fairly dark colour (watermelon red glitter), and was liberally scented with Crawfish Slime-It.

I'll also add a few pics of Jacks and Trevally caught at night ( and in the middle of winter no less) this year.

Cheers Brad

[Brad_H]

and a trevor

[danny_Shep]

Some awesome fish there mate, nerang sure does fire up after dark.

danny shep