If you are fishing on a boat and want to fish at night, take note of extreme weather change pattern around August to September months.
Based on my experience fishing nIght time on a boat during the transition stage from summer to fall, Fishing was not necessarily more productive than fishing early mornings or right before dark. Evening fishing seem to be very effective only when daytime weather temp was consistently hot for days at around 30-35+ degrees, bass need to hide from the Hot summer temp during daytime, they do come out at night to feed actively.
I did a research by myself to find out if fishing was any better during night time. Fishing at night has a different aura, we tend to rely on our sense of hearing and feel more during night fishing since our vision is sacrifice. Man issue with fishing at night.........BUGS! BUGS! BUGS!
Criteria: I fish on a Lake that we were familiar with, knowing our success catching rate during daytime, we then compare our daytime fishing experience to night fishing. We fish on different conditions ................during a Full moon, a New moon, on wind up to 20km/hr to calm evenings.
Our overall findings and recommendation..............fishing for bass during night time was not necessarily any better then fishing for them during daytime.
Fish activity tends to shut off from 11pm to right about day break. Rock bass and perch seem to be at the feeding frenzy ,the last species to be consistently active right close to 11pm.
One main issue we observe that cause fish to shut down at night was the extreme temperature drop of 10 degree temp change between daytime and evenings , the extreme change does affect fish activity at night. While temp changes within 5 degree difference during day and night , fish will still be somewhat active during the night. Any temp close to 10 degree change generally completely shuts off fish activity regardless of night fishing under strong or calm wind, New moon or Full moon.
Other temp changes to consider were changes within few days before we head out. 3 or more consecutive fishing days with temp within 5 degree difference were better fishing days for us .
Fishing on a river system is less susceptible to barometric pressure change compared to fishing on a lake, current flow is one issue that consistenly affects fish activity.