| If you can't fish at night, the next best time is | | | | eat a huge meal. They will be swimming around |
| dawn. Especially, in the summer and early fall. Fish | | | | looking for something small that is dead or injured. |
| don't want to be caught broiling away in the sun, | | | | That is where your suspending jerkbait comes |
| so they will go deep during the day, and cruise | | | | into play. Working this jerkbait slowly, parallel to |
| the shallows at night and in the early morning. The | | | | the shoreline, and pausing it, will get fish interested. |
| hotter it is during the day, the better the next | | | | Get a jerk with a rattle to call the fish into it. |
| day's early morning fishing will be. It gets the | | | | Most fish will take these on the pause, and they |
| coolest right as morning approaches. So that is | | | | will turn and bolt once they realize that they may |
| when you want to be on the water. Most likely, it | | | | have just bit some hooks. |
| will still be dark when this cooling process occurs. | | | | Keep a taught line to feel these subtle takes on |
| Good baits during the early dawn are medium | | | | the suspending minnow. With sharp hooks, a |
| sized crank and jerk baits, especially suspending | | | | sudden upward sweep of the rod will be all that is |
| jerk baits. The fish will be coming off a feeding | | | | needed to set the hook. No bait works as well as |
| frenzy at night if it is extremely hot during the | | | | medium and tiny jerkbaits that suspend in the |
| day, and as the first rays of light hit the water, | | | | dawn. |
| they will become more cautious and less likely to | | | | |