The Shumeister at night!

**gwslab** · 08-13-2016, 09:31 AM

Definitely need more lite to begin with once you have crappie around you can reduce the amount of lights to bring the crappie closer and keep the lights pointed down to keep the light field small now sometimes it doesn't matter i have killed them with all the lights on it depends on the mood of the crappie but most of the time it makes a big difference also darker the water equals more light . I used to use clamp lights until I discovered leds it's much better light and no battery drain

**Yelim** · 08-13-2016, 10:04 AM

Once fished a small pond in Land o lakes just north of Tampa. Daylight I caught nada. Dusk I caught a few just before time to leave. Returned later to night fish with a coleman lantern. I had rigged a pole to hang the light on and had that thing pumped up as high as my fingers would allow. I lite that lantern and got it going bright as possible. Set out my lines with minnows and NOTHING. Water was clear with a dark bottom, don't know how deep. Idea entered my head about too much light, so I turned down the lantern to a nice glow and started catching fish. Taught me a lesson. If you think fish are there and light is bright and nothing chewing, try lowering the candlepower. It might make a difference. Yes you can have to much light.

**fishin813** · 08-14-2016, 09:01 AM

Interesting - when night fishing i only use one 18# river anchor - i allow the wind to move the boat into position - if during the night wind
swirls it moves boat accordingly. Light wise -- i run everything off generator - 2 light 5ft in air and 45 degree out over water, plus 4 -125
cool lights thereby they won't burn you or carpet when you pull them in. these 4 lights run along sill of boat down one side about 1 1/2 off
water. At night the deeper you set the lines the smaller fish on down - bigger fish are comming up to get various bugs on surface that have
fallen prey to lights - zooplanton is also closer to surface and bait fish will be there.

1/4 oz bullet weight held in postion by pinch on bb shot - 1 foot above single hook - tipped with minnow -hook be inserted in dorsel fin - thereby
allowing free movement of minnow

Fish will bite from sundown to around 11pm - than start to pick up again 3am

**gwslab** · 08-14-2016, 09:57 AM

I believe the idea of reducing the lights is to get the bait into a smaller area and the crappie will have to come close to feed also the bigger the light field will put the shadow lines further away from the boat and scatter the bait and the crappie also if the boat is constantly moving it changes your shadow lines and the fish have to keep moving around usually results in a sporadic bite

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