The fish's eyes have much denser sets of light-gathering rods than do human eyes. It would seem that nature has equipped bass properly to feed at night as well as during the day. Do not think that because you can't see at night that the bass can't either. Their low-light vision is far superior to ours, plus they use other sensory organs such as their lateral line to locate and consume prey. For bass, water acts as a superb conductor of sound.
Water is much denser than air, so sound travels farther and faster in water.
At a distance, bass use their inner ears to hone in on prey. Up close, the lateral line tells them what's potentially edible and moving their way. For night fishing I keep my tackle selection simple. Black is probably the best color choice. This is because in low light, the rods in a fish's eye move to the front of the retina while the color receptors recede.