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Peacock Bass Fishing Miami Guide Peacock bass fishing miami guide Continue NBC joins the likes of AppleTV and Kibi. The network will launch its streaming service, Peacock, on July 15, bringing a slew of original new shows and already beloved NBC titles. Our diversity of Peacock Originals at launch demonstrates how we deliver timely and timeless content - regardless of genre or format, Peacock President of Original Content Bill McGoldrick said in a statement. We are proud to establish our voice and are excited to build on our strategy to attract a wide audience of Peacock. Whether you're in the mood for a marathon office for the hundredth time or check out something new, here's everything you need to know about Peacock. How to subscribe to Peacock? You can pre-order Peacock Premium here before the official release of the streaming service. Subscribers will pay about 48 hours (subject to change) before launching, nbc. 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By the time the city's shadow lengthens, thousands of visitors and homefolk converge on Second Avenue to fill the booths and bartools, thirsty for chow, leaks and communication. Nashville's entertainment corridor thrives in the dark. Just a short drive from downtown Nashville, the sun also sets on Old Hickory and J. Percy Priest Lakes, and anglers prepare for their own brand of excitement, for the pace of life beneath the surface picks up a couple of strokes after sunset, too. During the day, anglers in these urban waters suffer from the incessant whining of water skis and traces of the passage of pleasure boats. The hard-pressed bass is spooky and often take refuge where they are hard to find. But when the sun sets, calm descends on the lake. Anglers fish for several hours without seeing or hearing a single jet ski. They can spy a dozen or two other bass boats during their hours of fishing, but rarely will they pull in the honey hole to find someone else already there. Bass they find is often down to shallow along bluffs, on small humps and feeding flats, and anglers are usually able to approach within a flippin distance without scaring them. To get the most out of your night time think about equipment and change some of the usual practices that you follow during the day. One of the keys to successful night fishing is to simplify your gear. Moving around the cluttered deck of a boat in the dark is a bad idea. Pare down your collection with just a few baits that you are going to use. Put them in a small tackle box that you can keep on deck, dock, or bank. Decide which two or three rods you are most likely to use, and lay them to one side, aside. Slipping recycled tobacco can with worm rattles, hooks, weights, beads - all you need to retie soft plastic - in your jeans pocket. Make sure you have fresh batteries for the flashlight. Take a few extra precautions and you're ready to go. Night fishing bait in dim light, bass is unable to detect colors. Red, orange, yellow and chartreuse all become shades of gray after dark. As dusk disappears, blue is the last notable color. Although bass detect the presence of prey in their surroundings with vibration and noise and use this to search for food, they are mostly vision hunters. The lack of color does not seem to interfere with the night bass; they are much better equipped than humans when detecting shapes and movements. For this reason, choose baits that help the bass see the baits most clearly at night. For dark nights and shady areas, this means that black or dark patterns that produce maximum contrast against the bottom of the clay or against the surface of starlight. Carry some metal (gold, nickel and chrome) baits that can reflect the glitters of the dock light and the full moon. Here are the lures you'll find in my night fishing arsenal, from the top of the water column to the bottom: 5/16-oz. Black secret weapon Buzzrbait, with a black plastic trailer, a rigged hook stinger. Black JitterbugBlack Hula PopperBlack Tiny Torpedo1/2-oz. Midnight Snack Secret Weapon spinnerbait with black and blue-tipped skirts and black #5 or #6 Colorado blade, tipped with dark pork or a plastic trailer for dark lunar nights or in the shade. An alternative gold Colorado blade can be cropped on for fishing around the docks. On lunar nights and around the dock or parking lights, 1/2-oz. Moonlight Snack Secret Weapon spinnerbait with purple/blue flakes skirt and either black or nickel Colorado blade attachment. Bandit series 100 crankbait, which runs 2-6 feet deep. On cloudy or new moon nights, as the bait runs overhead, the black profile is easier for up-looking bass to discover than other colors against the starry sky. Around the dock lights and under the full moon, switch to the Chrome/Black Back pattern. Black 7-inch Berkeley Power Worms, Texas-rigged or on TitleSHot jig head. Black Tube, T-rigged or on titleSHot jig head. Black lizard or other creature bait Carolina-rigged3/8-oz. to 3/4-oz. black and blue jig with rattle, tipped with either black plastic maggot or purple purple frog or eel. See page 2 of the Night Fishing Tips and Color Considerations methods - The darker color of the bait create more contrast with the night sky and easier for the up-looking bass to discover. Blue is the last color to disappear as the light disappears with twilight or depth. For this reason, if you want to add color to black lures for night fishing, make it blue. When fishing around lights (or under a bright full moon), there may be enough light for other colors to be visible to fish.
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