mdk77 wrote:
I was looking for information on trout fishing in Missouri and there
was a post saying the biggest trout were caught after dark. Frankly
I'd never heard of fly fishing after dark. Do any of you do this with
any luck? What flies do you fish in the dark?

It almost sounds like a "fish story" to me :-)

I have fished at night - conventional and fly fishing. All in all, I
don't care for it because it is tough to deal with tangled lines,
wading, and so forth. But I have had success. I swung muddler minnows
in a small trout stream and gotten 13 and 14 inch fish that do not show
themselves otherwise. I got some big largemouth bass and crappie, and
huge lake trout. It is ideal to be in position before the sun goes
down, so you know where your backcast goes, where the drift is, where
the snags are, and all that. Better to be with a friend than alone, in
case you are prone to the heebie jeebies. And to have a cameraman in
case you want to replicate that famous picture of Joe Humphries landing
his state record fish.

Pete Collin