FishnDave ? I've caught a number of bats when I was night fishin for brown trout a number of years ago. It's a pretty strange feeling because nothing feels right. They were always caught at the end of my backcast. I would simply take all my line up into the reel until the bat hit the end of the rod and then hold it under water until I knew it was dead. Then I'd cut about four feet of leader off just so I didn't have get close to it. When night fishing I also wore a hat with a large brim on it so the bats wouldn't fly too close to me while trying to catch the bugs that hung around me. When you can feel or hear the wing beat, they are too close.