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Anybody ever tried to crappie fish at night with any success? I got a 12inch light bar that mount during duck season to the front of the boat I know I could see my lines poles and probably my minnows down at least 6 foot with that bright thing. Any opinion? Door is open here?
Got a couple places I would like to try, got a lite from Bob before he passed away. Tried pulling cranks and it didn't work too good for me.
If before dawn counts then yes and have done good.
My dad and I do it a good bit during the summer. It is either hit or miss and can't really figure out why. The first time we ever tried it we thought it was the easiest thing in the world. Went to the middle of the lake, dropped achor, put out a light and dropped minnows with a cork beside light and in 2 hours and our 3 man limit.
Next two time we caught nothing. After about 20 minutes of the light being out we usually have several shad boiling the water. The times we have really caught the fish we would have millions of shad boiling the water. I believe that the time we caught the fish we accidentaly achored over balls of shad the white perch were following. I think if we had good electronics we could troll until we found shad and the anchor over them.
The light attracts the bait(plankton and smallfish) I think it would work better around dock's or some type of cover.Rees don't think it would work on a moving tecneic like cranking or trolling.
I've tried it a couple times middle of summer. Caught a few not many. Beats the heat for sure.
only tried it in late summer . Did well at Enid in timber in front of water valley ramp and bridge at long branch . Don't know why more don't try it .
Any idea what it would be like if you got on the lake at, say 4:00 am and fished till dawn? I've fished at nite from 10:00 till 1-2 AM and did well, but what about getting an 'early' start when its dark. Anybody have any experience with that?
A coworker would set things up just before dark in the timbers at Water Valley Landing. Hang a Coleman lantern on 2 timbers with a rope between them, yoyos tied to the rope. This was before limits were reduced or slot limits were in place. 3 or 4 people in the boat at one time, catch the limit and let someone else fish them for a while all night long.