On a Saturday night in July a few years ago 15 members and guests of the Spalding County Sportsman Club fished our July tournament at Lake Sinclair. Fishing from 6:00 PM to 2:00 AM we tried to beat the heat, but it didn’t work. I had sweat dripping from my nose even at midnight. But it was more comfortable that it would have been with the sun shining down.

After eight hours we brought in 19 keeper bass weighing about 32 pounds. There were two limits and seven people didn’t have a keeper to weigh.

Kwong Yu won it all with three bass weighing 9.91 pounds and his 7.14 pound lunker took the big fish pot. I had five at 7.28 pounds for second, Brent Terry came in third with five weighing 6.37 pounds and Russell Prevatte was fourth with two at 2.29 pounds. Kwong said he landed the big one on a jig head worm and eight pound test line.

I got lucky. After two hours of casting practice I went to a cove where there were some docks shaded from the setting sun. As I passed one dock I saw brush out in 12 feet of water on my depth finder and cast back to it, and landed a barely legal keeper. I noticed a strange blue and green glow under the dock and started fishing around it.

A man walked down to the dock and I expected him to turn off his lights. Instead, we started talking. Darrell Keith owned the cabin and he makes and sells Hydro Glow fishing lights. They were what was making the glow under the water. He said he tested his lights there and they brought in bass every night. As we talked it got darker and I could see shad starting to circle the light.

He went back to his cabin, saying a lot of fish would move in when it got real dark. At about 9:00 PM, at full dark, he came back out and I landed a keeper bass on a jig head worm almost immediately. He said he could see a bass swimming around and I got my third keeper on a crankbait. He left again and at 10:00 I landed my fourth keeper on the worm.

I kept fishing the dock and landed a fifth small keeper at 11:20 then one that culled the first fish I caught at midnight. Although I stayed there until 1:30 I did not get another fish.

If I had a dock or fished at night, I would definitely have one of those lights. There were shad around it the whole night but lights 100 feet on either side, one big bright street light type on the end of a dock and one dim light right on the water, never had a shad around them when I fished them.

The web site for Hydro Glow fishing lights is www.hydroglow.com. They are expensive but worth the price, I think!