A Night Bass Fishing Experience. A BAT Fishing Experience.?
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can a bat bite through monofilament line? l got into a bass bite last night unlike anything l’ve seen. not big numbers, just the way they hit. was using a 10″ plastic worm with 12lb line. heavy stuff for me. never had time to set the hook!! the bass just hammered these things and were on. four times. biggest one (of course) pulled about 10 feet (strong), when a bat was dicking around the end of my rod. line broke and now this bass is dragging around 50 ‘ of mono. there were lots of bats last night and they were messing constantly with my line. had to hold rod tip low close to the water. l have never run into bats in these quantities before. have you ever had any experiences like this? can and will bats bite through monofilament line?
l know the fish didn’t break it on his own. l fish regularly with 8lb and this was new 12lb maxima. (l will go a little heavier at night.)
any input on any of this, please?
the only thing l was hung into, riverwalker, was the fish. and the line parted right in the area that the bat was. their radar was evidently telling them my line was mosquitoes
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I had one get caught in my hair once. Bat, not bass. I don’t see how they could? Perhaps you were caught underwater on something? Rock, tree? Wierd.
I had a bat actually take my fly just as it hit the water. he broke off as soon as I thumbed the reel, he stripped out about 30′ of line in the blink of an eye though, but I use 3-5lb test leader. I was pretty much left standing there wondering what the hell happened.
My guess is that the bat managed to bruise the line or somehow got a knot in it. it doesn’t take much bruise mono and once it happens line strength goes down in a hurry, one good knot or kink in your 12lb test and your down to about 4-5lb test.
sounds like your already got it covered, only thing you can really do about the bats is get your line into the water as fast as you can and keep the rod tip down.
technically bats use something more like sonar, you may be able to find something that emits ultrasonic sound waves that may drive them away. I’ve small personal sized emiters that claim to drive away mosquitos, they might work, also there are larger size emiters (some even run off batteries like the personal size) that claim to work for bats, I haven’t seen any real science that says they work but if you can find something cheap I’d try it.
probably. some of them have pretty sharp teeth.
next time put up some floodlights and glowsticks. and maybe a fire. it’ll scare them off.