Night Timing Remix - Tips for Success

Once you're inspired, whether Coconut Records did it or not, try these quick tips for night snooking success:

1.) Use circle hooks. Unlike a traditional J hook, a circle hook doesn't have to be set. What this means: once you feel the bite, just start reeling and the snook with hook itself. No hard rod set is needed, which helps prevent the snook from swallowing the hook or ripping up its mouth.
2.) Use heavy monofiliment leader, around thirty pound test. Night fishing usually means casting around and under docks and pilings. Snook are notorious for taking off near pilings and breaking the line, but heavy monofiliment can help prevent these break-offs from happening. You should start bringing a lot more fish to your boat.
3.)Braided line, 12 or 15 lb test. Sometimes you need all the support you can get, and braided line is strong and abrasion resistant. The wily snook won't break this line, which means more fish for you.
4.)Stay as quiet as possible. Snook are the most skiddish fish out there, and they often see you before you see them. The best way to combat their seeming intelligence is to not say a word. The only noise should be the sound of your paddle if you're in a kayak or the sound of your trolling motor if you're on a flats boat and the sound of the snook flicking out of the water when you hook up.
5.)Cast on shadows and reel your line back through the light. If you cast on top of snook, they'll just scatter. Try to get your line on the shadows casted by the snook lights so it imitates a bait just cruising into the light.
6.)Once hooked, move onto another light. Snook typically won't bite for 15 or 20 minutes in a place where another snook just got hooked up.
7.)Bring a small flashlight if you're kayaking. You want to be able to see what you're doing, but you want as little residual light as possible so the snook doesn't sense your presence.
8.)Live bait. In my experiences, snook pounce on a lively shrimp flicking all around.