A old-school book of wisdom thats kept up with new technology = dangerous. He didnt break the surface on what he knows but he just taught alot of folks more than they could've learned in a lifetime. Always listen to the Bills of your area. Awesome podcast

@FishNorthGeorgia

Ай бұрын

Thank you. We squeeze out of them what we can! He's awesome and thank s for watching!

Bill has so much knowledge I can’t take it all in. Need to take another trip with him

I get home from work at 11pm. This episode is gold for me.

I use to slow roll a big spinner bait on lake Lanier at night. Had a lot of success using it. I have had the blade ripped off from vicious strikes.

I do a lot of dock light fishing from my kayak but I’ve been itching to actually learn to catch em at night. I bought some all black spinnerbaits and have a few areas to try it out! Thanks Mr. Payne!

@FishNorthGeorgia

Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

I’ve been night fishing spinnerbaits 25 years and I learned something new that I’m going to try good stuff!

@FishNorthGeorgia

Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching and let us know if it works for you!

This reminds me of my wee lad days in the 80s eavesdropping on conversations between some of the local sticks in the tackle shop. Private club made up of a couple quarry lakes. Lots of sunken rock piles. One night I’m in the shop, a couple of the locals are in there and they’re huddled around the owners box looking at baits. They all had this wild eyed look about them. The box was full of spinnerbaits. Musky spinnerbaits! These things looked like clothes hangers with a hook and blade on them. Huge. But they were heavy and one of the extremely productive techniques was crawling those enormous baits across the bottom for big largemouth. At the time there were no options available for big spinnerbaits. Of course there were smart guys that eventually realized you could crimp weights onto bass sized spinnerbaits to fish more efficiently.

That Black Light fishing is fun stuff. I got to do it a bunch last summer on Lanier

Hi Bill. Tim and I were happy to be those guys you were fishing with . We should have caught a hundred. You're amazing to fish with!

Summer time at night here in East Texas, (Fork, Toledo Bend, Sam Rayburn, etc.) a top water Jitterbug, or hollow bodied frog is hard to beat.

nice podcast, Danny! Love the topic and I love nite fishing when I can do it. Love listening to Bill and his knowledge. You said slow talker…so true. 😂 This is the only podcast I could listen to at 2x speed, and not miss anything. 😂

@FishNorthGeorgia

Ай бұрын

I'm laughing my butt off with your comment. I do that on some of my Audible books!

This seasoned fellow here has knowledge that would help even the novice night time fishermen, us down in Alabama on Tennessee river for sure throw them 3/4 spinnerbaits , Mr bill here I’d love to fish with him one time just get more of this knowledge for sure very very good podcast.

@FishNorthGeorgia

28 күн бұрын

He's a good one!

I wonder if you kind of revitalize a spent swivel with a couple shots of WD40 during the night. This gentleman is an absolute gem.

I fish a lake that has Blue back but there is no grass or trees. Just man made brush piles & silt. Years ago a spinner bait was juice but anymore the bait has to be dragged through a brush pile or rock pile to even get a bite after sunset. The herring were introduced along with spotted bass 12 to 15 years ago but it’s easily the hardest lake you will ever fish if you want to catch a bass over 3lbs. What’s funny is that there are 7+ pretty heavy. Just extremely shy about everything a fish can be.

Great guest and video ! Very good insights on safety at night . Years ago I had a near miss after midnight with a float tuber that was out in the middle of a small lake with no lights of any kind on . Luckily I was slowly crossing a lake arm to the opposite bank and not on pad maybe going 5-7 MPH . with my nav lights on when I was just about on him he turns a flash light on at the last second and starts yelling , I had to swerve hard to miss him . IDIOT ! I said to myself .

The most dangerous thing about night fishing is those black floating widow makers that are not on your lake maps!

@HawgWyldFishing

Ай бұрын

Yep you have to spend some time on the water at night just chillin and cruising around slow just to really get familiar with being out there in it, and never be so eager to just try running wide open on unfamiliar waters first thing. And the biggest thing that would help guys is turn those damn screens off or as dim as they can go to while you’re driving from place to place, if they will go low enough that you aren’t having to try to see past them. One of the biggest impediments to seeing well on the water at night is the big bright ass screen that’s right in front of you. It’s much safer to run at night without your screens turned on, and just knowing the body of water. Then turn it back on once you get to the area you were going. If you don’t know the water well enough to know where you’re going without your mapping, you better be planning on driving slow enough that you can safely watch what is ahead of you and check your mapping every so often as you go. Plan to be happy slowing down when it comes to being on the water at night. Otherwise, you should probably plan to have a rough night because trying to run and gun at night is a very good way to make that happen very fast.

@BigCatOutdoors44

Ай бұрын

Agreed! Part of the reason I fish out of a mud boat on those night tournaments

Big fan of this podcast. If any of yall want to come on over to lake chickamauga for the summer night fishing. Harrison bay boat ramp every Friday snd Saturday night from 8pm to 2 am. Tim Long puts on a good tournament.

@FishNorthGeorgia

Ай бұрын

That sounds like a good time. Never fished it at night.

@chickenbutt721

Ай бұрын

Those fellers will beat your brains in LOL! Fished against them all for years. Good dudes.

@BigCatOutdoors44

Ай бұрын

@@FishNorthGeorgia it’s a good time

What a great wealth of knowledge 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸😎🐟💦💦💦 great show, brother

I fish quite a bit at night when temp get over 100dg. Over the years I have had better success just sitting on one high percentage area. Weird part is it almost seems like different group of bass come in as the night goes on. Or that is my belief; it could be they are there the whole time. Maybe they just bite in thier own bite window. Hell I don't know

@FishNorthGeorgia

Ай бұрын

I feel the same way. Who knows? But Bill leads us into some options for sure!

Me and this dude are 1 and the same

@FishNorthGeorgia

Ай бұрын

He's a fantastic guy! Thanks for watching!

he knows the deal, so many little things he said that i wouldn’t tell a soul lol

@FishNorthGeorgia

Ай бұрын

Bill's all about helping others catch fish. Fantastic guy!

Is there a secret to keep the line from wrapping around the blade arm of the spinnerbait when making long cast? This happens to me all the time.

@FishNorthGeorgia

Ай бұрын

Not sure why that's happening to you. I'll shoot Bill a message and see what he says. Thanks for watching!

@mooutlaw417

13 күн бұрын

Draw up a small piece of heat shrink tubing over and just below the eye.

@nickgates4387

16 сағат бұрын

Are you fishing in 50 mph winds? Lmao this never happens to me

@kirksears6541

14 сағат бұрын

Maybe it’s the brand or wire size or the line. I started reting every hour and it has helped. Maybe you don’t throw it as much as I do?. I throw a spinner baitit for 7-8 hours night fishing

The reason they are on the bottom of the lake is so they something to sleep on!! No, it’s so the have an object to relate too. Just like that brush pile in the day time.