NEwb night water failure? Not a single bite

[sayn3ver]

HI, i am new to the board. I've usually only fished day time with rubber worms and now senko's with success but i tried fishing at night tonight.

I picked up a 3/8 black jointed jitterbug and some june bug colored stick worms and headed out. I fished with the jitterbug most of the night, using a slow steady retrieve, and 2 jerk then pause...2 jerk then pause, and even a faster retrieve with some jerks thrown in. Nothing. Fished from the bank, throwing to the outskirts of lilly pads alternating with deeper water, and any lumber i could find. After no luck for about 3 hours i switched a a june bug senko knockoff rigged texas style and slummed it through the muck for a few hours, letting it sink, slow retrieve with pauses, some light jerking action. I mixed it up then and went wacky through some lighter stuff and on the fringe of the muck but no dice. It got really cool yesterday and today felt like an autumn day here in Southern NJ.

I'd like to try a non-jointed jitterbug, a zara spook and a POP-R next time. The local stores don't carry the devil horse? and only have the larger torpedoes, should i give one of them a go? I assume i could try some horny toads too, but i'd like to limit my spending as i have dropped more than i wanted to the last few trips to the store because i've really been enjoying myself fishing and figured expanding into night fishing would allow more flexibility.

Last week at the same lake during the day i caught 4 bass within 40 minutes...all about 1-2 pounders guestimate(roughly 12 inches give or take). Tonight i landed nothing.