Dave Holmquist led a night fishing trip on his
Dave Holmquist and Ryan Baranowski tossed around “Murder House,” “Disco Dock,” “Mud Lake,” “Bay of Giants” and “Football Bay” as we pushed off last weekend for night fishing of largemouth bass.
The stories were as good as the names. I could feel myself relax and settle in. Guys who name fishing spots that well were going to be all right.
Night fishing is a pull on the unknown, and often means bigger more aggressive fish. Holmquist has it down to a science.
I love night fishing, but rarely do it. When Holmquist suggested I come along on a night outing when the bite kicked in, I was in. Last week he emailed that it was time.
“We’ll be fishing my equivalent to Mercury Marine’s Lake X,” he emailed.
Lake X was the legendary Florida lake where Mercury tested marine products.
Sounded good to me and I dug out my headlamp. Holmquist wanted to meet with an hour of daylight so we could go over the ABC’s of what he likes to do at night.
“This outing is to show the power of bladed jigs at night, so even though we do use other baits, I don’t think we’ll need to use anything else and we won’t have time to slow down and pick apart structure with jigs and worms,” he emailed.
He had two sets of black and blue Jack Hammer (3/4- and 1/2-ounce) with Strike King Rage tails ready for me to tie on. I had a box of black spinner baits, the traditional night-fishing bait, but Holmquist noted, correctly, his method was better.
