Would have added a photo, but wasn't sure how.

Yes I have caught 2 so for both on top water and what a blast ‼️

Night fishing has always been a challenge for me. Fly fishing is such a visual experience, and especially on topwater, that the increased catch just isn't enough to keep me on the water. Add old age and crap night vision, and the fact that we're not allowed to fish non-tidal waters from two hours after sunset til two hours before sunrise, plus the short periods of darkness at northern latitudes, and it hasn't been much of a contest.
Gotta say, though, there are times sitting on the deck when I can hear the big gals out there in the dark slurping hexes off the surface in the bay, that I'm tempted to push the canoe out and chase them. So far, a couple more fingers of Gibson's 12 year old seems to quash that need.
brent

Sounds great, Cliff! My only golf course fishing experiences are from down in Moss Creek, SC, and Hilton Head. Every one of those ponds holds alligators. Knowing they're active all night kind of put a damper on it for me. The course policy was to remove them once they reached 6' but for this lad from the land of ice and snow, that's nowhere soon enough. Heck, I've almost accidentally stepped on them in broad daylight.
brent

Wimps!

I was fishing at a local pond a few years ago and saw this 18 ft. gator a few feet from the bank (it had put its money in the bank for safekeeping) . I cast a #2 bugger on my 000-wt, 2ft rod and it ate it (the bugger, not the rod). It took 17 hrs to get it to hand when it grabbed my left foot as I was trying to get it into the net. Suddenly it spat my foot out and said "You didn't wash your foot this morning, did you!!" Then it took off, spitting the whole way. A few weeks later it was reported that someone found that huge gator dead in the water. An autopsy revealed that it died from athlete's foot.

Oh, its worse than that.....he's no athlete.

That's more like it, Cliff. No room for exaggeration here; we're all honor bound to hold the truth sacred.

Eehhhh, most of my state records have been beaten over the years. At one time I had I think 21, but now it's only six in public and private waters. But that's okay, everyone has a chance to join in the fun and get a state record. I remember one guy beat my state private waters record for a green sunfish and I emailed him and congratulated him on the record. He said he was surprised because he thought I would be mad. I told him that I was happy for him and that I hoped he would get more. The thrill we get when we catch a state record fish is something I wish more people would get. The records are all for fun, all they mean is that we were lucky enough to be on the water at that particular time and threw a fly or lure in front of a fish that was enticed by it. There have been many fish caught that would have been records but either people didn't know it, didn't care, or didn't want to go through the process of having it certified - to each their own.