Thread: Night time for perch

I went several times during the summer, didn't have much luck though. I have one of the green lights to attract the bait fish, it worked very good. Just could not catch any crappie though, caught a lot of bar fish. I have a co-worker that did well on Caney last winter at night. They were fishing right off the bottom, single pole tightline with just a light in the boat. I will be giving that a try in January. Good luck.

I have a green monster at my pier its in about 23ft of wAter, I catch stripes and large mouth on crank baits till I'm blue in the face. I'm real wanting to catch these perch. I do ok in the day time but I haven't had good luck at night. I fished for 2 hours tonight with shimmers and jigs and did not get a bump. My neighbor caught 17 just before dark in the same place I don't no what I'm doing wrong or if there just not bitting.

Originally Posted by Andrews

I have a green monster at my pier its in about 23ft of wAter, I catch stripes and large mouth on crank baits till I'm blue in the face. I'm real wanting to catch these perch. I do ok in the day time but I haven't had good luck at night. I fished for 2 hours tonight with shimmers and jigs and did not get a bump. My neighbor caught 17 just before dark in the same place I don't no what I'm doing wrong or if there just not bitting.

You did nothing wrong, your neighbor caught em all.

Must have she is 90 yrs old and fishes every day in great health. She has some sort of fish in her cooler everyday, waiting on me to dress them when I get home from work. She don't throw nothing back, I tell her sometimes ms Williams this is to small why did u keep that? She says you eat peas don't you!!!

Guy told us one day after I said put a few them small ones back for next year. His reply" You eat shrimp?" I said yeah, he said "Shrimp small too!"

This lady is tough on fish.

I've never done much nite fishing. Nite time is made for sleeping....

What water do you live on Andrews?

Keep trying!!