Thread: Night fishing for Crappie

Right from the ODW site:

Every boat must display lights between the hours of sunset and sunrise, and must display required lights during times of restricted visibility (fog, heavy rain, mist, etc.).
[See specific lighting requirements.].....


[specific lighting requirements.]
Unpowered boats less than 65.6 feet long
Unpowered boats less than 65.6 feet long (including sailboats and boats that are rowed, paddled or poled), must have:

Red and green sidelights:
The red light indicating the port (left) side, and the green light indicating the starboard (right) side of the boat.
Visible to another boat approaching from the side or head-on.
Visible from at least two miles (for boats less than 39.4 feet in length, visible from at least one mile).

Unpowered boats less than 23 feet long, must:

If practical, exhibit the same lights as listed above.
If not practical, have on board at least one lantern or flashlight, shining a white light, which shall be exhibited in sufficient time to avoid or prevent a collision.
All boats, when not underway, are required to display an all-around white light when moored or anchored away from a dock between sunset and sunrise.

Id sure feel bad if I run over some yahoo padling across open water at night but if you do run'em over and they aint got no lights out its thier fault.

I got high powered lights on the front of my boat now and can see a long darn ways out in front of me. Engineered and Installed it myself for about a $100. I can see stobs and genius's without lights in plenty of time so I ain't worried.

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Montanaboy, favorite fishing partner, and I fished lights at Mark Twain in Missouri, two nights ago. We were in 65 feet of of water, but only about 40 feet from the vertical cliff bank. Small bugs showed up immediately, followed by minnows that were about 1.5" About 45 minutes later, we had a swarm of 5"-7" shad just under the lights. Soon, we had small crappie under the lights. They bit steadily for about three hours, but they were only 7"-10" fish, plus a 3# channel cat. Just as we were about to leave, a 13" fish bit. We foolishly decided to fish a "little longer", and catch some more big 'uns. An hour later, we were still catching 7"-10" fish, so we went home at 2:00 A.M. We went back to the same spot in the morning and trolled Wiggle Warts, Bomber A's, and Norman lures, catching mostly 10"-11.5" fish, plus some sandies and drum.